Fall-prescribed burn and spring-applied herbicide effects on Canada thistle control and soil seedbank in a northern mixed-grass prairie

Rangeland Ecology and Management

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 413-422

  Travnicek, Andrea J ^a   Lym, Rodney G ^b   Prosser, Chad ^c  

^a HPC Inc   (United States)

^b NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Theodore Roosevelt National Park   (United States)

Author keywords

Clopyralid; Invasive species; IPM; Picloram; Revegetation

Indexed keywords

HERBICIDE; INVASIVE SPECIES; PRESCRIBED BURNING; WEED CONTROL;

NORTH AMERICA; NORTH DAKOTA; THEODORE ROOSEVELT NATIONAL PARK; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

CIRSIUM; CIRSIUM ARVENSE; POA; POA PRATENSIS; POACEAE;

EID: 23744505583     PISSN: 15507424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2111/1551-5028(2005)058[0413:FBASHE]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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