Responses of a remnant California native bunchgrass population to grazing, burning and climatic variation

Plant Ecology

Volumn 181, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 101-112

  Marty, Jaymee T ^a,c   Collinge, Sharon K ^b   Rice, Kevin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c THE NATURE CONSERVANCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Burning; California; Climatic variation; Grasslands; Grazing; Nassella pulchra; Purple needlegrass

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; GRASSLAND; GRAZING; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION ECOLOGY; PRESCRIBED BURNING; RECRUITMENT;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

NASSELLA PULCHRA;

EID: 27944501493     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-005-3797-z     Document Type: Article

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