Testing the efficacy of species richness and floristic quality assessment of quality, temporal change, and fire effects in tallgrass prairie natural areas

Natural Areas Journal

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 17-30

  Bowles, Marlin ^a,c   Jones, Michael ^b  

^a MORTON ARBORETUM   (United States)

^b Christopher B Burke Engineering Ltd   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Fire management; Floristic Quality Index (FQI); Species Richness Index (SRI); Tallgrass prairie; Temporal change

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; FIRE MANAGEMENT; INDEX METHOD; PRAIRIE; SPECIES RICHNESS;

POACEAE;

EID: 31144478028     PISSN: 08858608     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3375/0885-8608(2006)26[17:TTEOSR]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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