Monitoring temporal change in riparian vegetation of Great Basin National Park

Western North American Naturalist

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 382-402

  Beever, Erik A ^a,d   Pyke, David A ^a   Chambers, Jeanne C ^b   Landau, Fred ^c   Smith, Stanley D ^c  

^a FOREST AND RANGELAND ECOSYSTEM SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^d Great Lakes Science Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Disturbance; Great Basin National Park; Livestock removal; Monitoring; Riparian ecosystems; Woody vegetation

Indexed keywords

ABIES; ABIES CONCOLOR; ABIES GRANDIS; PICEA; PICEA ENGELMANNII; POACEAE; POPULUS TREMULOIDES;

EID: 23644442928     PISSN: 15270904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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