Groundlayer vegetation gradients across oak woodland canopy gaps

Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society

Volumn 133, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 225-239

  Pavlovic, Noel B ^a   Grundel, Ralph ^a   Sluis, William ^a,b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

C4 grasses; Environmental gradients; Gap area; Gap size; Legumes; Prairie openings; Restoration; Sand savanna; Savanna forbland; Sorghastrum nutans; Structure; Tephrosia virginiana; USA

Indexed keywords

CANOPY GAP; DECIDUOUS TREE; EDGE EFFECT; GAP DYNAMICS; GRASS; HETEROGENEITY; LEGUME; LITTER; MICROHABITAT; VEGETATION; WOODLAND;

INDIANA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

DIERVILLA LONICERA; HELIANTHUS; HELIANTHUS DIVARICATUS; LONICERA; POACEAE; POLYGONATUM; POLYGONATUM PUBESCENS; QUERCUS VELUTINA; SORGHASTRUM NUTANS; TEPHROSIA; TEPHROSIA VIRGINIANA; TRADESCANTIA; TRADESCANTIA OHIENSIS;

EID: 33748260620     PISSN: 10955674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3159/1095-5674(2006)133[225:GVGAOW]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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