Strategies for savanna restoration in the southern Great Plains: Effects of fire and herbicides

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 420-428

  Ansley, R James ^a   Castellano, Michael J ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Clopyralid; Competition; Fire; Mesquite; Prescribed burning; Prosopis glandulosa; Species diversity; Woody plant encroachment

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); ECOSYSTEM; FIRE; GRASSLAND; HERBICIDE; RESTORATION ECOLOGY;

GREAT PLAINS; NORTH AMERICA;

POACEAE; PROSOPIS; PROSOPIS GLANDULOSA;

EID: 33747356797     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2006.00150.x     Document Type: Article

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