Riverscape-level patterns of riparian plant diversity along a successional gradient, Willamette river, Oregon

Plant Ecology

Volumn 185, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 85-95

  Fierke, Melissa K ^a,b   Kauffman, J Boone ^a,c  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^c USDA Forest Service   (United States)

Author keywords

Black cottonwood; Community ecology; Forest succession; Populus

Indexed keywords

DECIDUOUS TREE; HERB; PLANT COMMUNITY; RIPARIAN FOREST; RIPARIAN VEGETATION; SHRUB; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; SUCCESSION; UNDERSTORY;

NORTH AMERICA; OREGON; UNITED STATES; WILLAMETTE RIVER;

FRAXINUS; FRAXINUS LATIFOLIA; PHALARIS; PHALARIS ARUNDINACEA; POPULUS BALSAMIFERA; SALIX;

EID: 33745499055     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-005-9086-z     Document Type: Article

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