Nassella pulchra survival and water relations depend more on site productivity than on small-scale disturbance

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 177-178

  Lombardo, Keith ^a   Fehmi, Jeffrey S ^a   Rice, Kevin J ^b   Laca, Emilio A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecological; Mortality; Nassella pulchra; Restoration; Site fertility

Indexed keywords

GRASS; MORTALITY; PLANT WATER RELATIONS; PRODUCTIVITY; SITE EFFECT; SOIL FERTILITY; SURVIVAL; WATER STRESS;

NASSELLA; NASSELLA PULCHRA;

EID: 34249745662     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2007.00202.x     Document Type: Article

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