Does the type of disturbance matter when restoring disturbance-dependent grasslands?

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 263-272

  Macdougall, Andrew S ^a,b   Turkington, Roy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fire; Grassland; Invasive species; Oak savanna; Restoration

Indexed keywords

BURNING; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; INVASIVE SPECIES; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SAVANNA;

POACEAE;

EID: 34249672227     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2007.00209.x     Document Type: Article

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