Assessing exotic plant species invasions and associated soil characteristics: A case study in eastern Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, USA, using the pixel nested plot design

Applied Soil Ecology

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 622-634

  Kalkhan, Mohammed A ^a   Stafford, Evan J ^a   Woodly, Peter J ^a   Stohlgren, Thomas J ^b  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Canonical correspondence analysis; Exotic plant species; Geospatial information; Geostatistics; Landscape scale; Pixel nested plot; Plant diversity; Rapid assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846165134     PISSN: 09291393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apsoil.2006.09.009     Document Type: Article

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