Assessing targets for the restoration of herbaceous vegetation in Ponderosa pine forests

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 548-560

  Laughlin, Daniel C ^a   Moore, Margaret M ^a   Bakker, Jonathan D ^b   Casey, Cheryl A ^a   Springer, Judith D ^a   Fulé, Peter Z ^a   Covington, W Wallace ^a  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomass; C3; C4; Elymus elymoides; Festuca arizonica; Herbaceous standing crop; Legumes; Muhlenbergia montana; Patch

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; FOREST CANOPY; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GRASS; LEGUME; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; TREE; VEGETABLE;

CAREX GEOPHILA; ELYMUS; ELYMUS ELYMOIDES; FESTUCA ARIZONICA; MUHLENBERGIA MONTANA; POA; POA FENDLERIANA;

EID: 33749162138     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2006.00166.x     Document Type: Article

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