Multivariate control of plant species richness and community biomass in blackland prairie

Oikos

Volumn 106, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 151-157

  Weiher, Evan ^a   Forbes, Sarah ^b   Schauwecker, Timothy ^b   Grace, James B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN EAU CLAIRE   (United States)

^b MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL WETLANDS RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRAIRIE; SOIL PROPERTY; SPECIES RICHNESS; VEGETATION COVER;

MISSISSIPPI; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

JUNIPERUS; JUNIPERUS VIRGINIANA;

EID: 3042583366     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0030-1299.2004.12545.x     Document Type: Article

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