Disturbance persistence in managed grasslands: Shifts in aboveground community structure and the weed seed bank

Plant Ecology

Volumn 190, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 71-80

  Renne, Ian J ^a,b   Tracy, Benjamin F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b YOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

C3 pasture invasions; Community trajectories; Ecological legacies; Site history; Soil seed bank; Weed recruitment dynamics

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL HISTORY; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DISTURBANCE; GRASSLAND; GRAZING MANAGEMENT; PERSISTENCE; RECRUITMENT; SEED BANK; TRAMPLING; WEED;

MIDWEST; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

BOS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 34047192965     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-006-9191-7     Document Type: Article

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