Reducing smooth sumac dominance in native tallgrass prairie

Great Plains Research

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 45-49

  Tunnell, Susan J ^a   Stubbendieck, James ^a   Palazzolo, Sal ^a   Masters, Robert A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b DOW AGROSCIENCES LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

Great Plains; Herbicide; Prescribed burning; Rhus glabra

Indexed keywords

FIRE; HERBICIDE; SHRUB;

HEDERA; RHUS GLABRA;

EID: 33646474031     PISSN: 10525165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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