Lessons from agriculture may improve the management of invasive plants in wildland systems

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 428-434

  Smith, Richard G ^a   Maxwell, Bruce D ^a   Menalled, Fabián D ^a   Rew, Lisa J ^a  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGROECOLOGY; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; INTRODUCED SPECIES; RANGELAND; WEED CONTROL; WILDERNESS AREA;

EID: 33749492752     PISSN: 15409295     EISSN: 15409309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1540-9295(2006)4[428:LFAMIT]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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