Variation in resource availability changes the impact of invasive thistles on native bunchgrasses

Ecological Applications

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 528-539

  Reever Morghan, Kimberly J ^a   Rice, Kevin J ^b  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Abiotic factors; California Central Valley grasslands; Centaurea solstitialis; Invasive species; Nassella pulchra; Native plant communities; Perennial grasses

Indexed keywords

RAIN; WATER;

BIOTIC FACTOR; CONSERVATION; GRASS; INVASIVE SPECIES; PLANT COMMUNITY; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SOIL BY FORM OR PROPERTY;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CENTAUREA; ECOSYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT SEED; POACEAE; REPRODUCTION; SOIL;

BIOMASS; CENTAUREA; ECOSYSTEM; POACEAE; RAIN; REPRODUCTION; SEEDS; SOIL; WATER;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

CENTAUREA; CENTAUREA SOLSTITIALIS; CIRSIUM; NASSELLA PULCHRA; POACEAE;

EID: 33646124967     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: 10510761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(2006)016[0528:VIRACT]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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