Mid-spring burning reduces spotted knapweed and increases native grasses during a Michigan experimental grassland establishment

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 118-128

  Macdonald, Neil W ^a   Scull, Brian T ^a   Abella, Scott R ^b  

^a GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Centaurrea maculosa; Glassland establishment; Gravel mine spoils; Native grasses; Prescribed burning; Spotted knapweed; Warm season grasses

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; GRASS; GRASSLAND; HERB; PERENNIAL PLANT; PRESCRIBED BURNING; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT;

MICHIGAN; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

CENTAUREA; CENTAUREA MACULOSA; POACEAE;

EID: 33947629700     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2006.00196.x     Document Type: Article

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