Effects of prescribed fall burning on a wetland plant community, with implications for management of plants and herbivores

Western North American Naturalist

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 299-317

  McWilliams, Scott R ^a,c   Sloat, Todd ^a,d   Toft, Catherine A ^a   Hatch, Daphne ^b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b California State Parks   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^d T Sloat Biological Consulting Inc   (United States)

^e Natural Resource Management and Science   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive management; CANOCO; Correspondence analysis; Fire; Geese; Prescribed burning; Wetland plant community

Indexed keywords

ANSER; CRYPSIS SCHOENOIDES; DISTICHLIS SPICATA; ELYMUS REPENS; HORDEUM; HORDEUM JUBATUM; PHALARIS; PHALARIS ARUNDINACEA;

EID: 34447576425     PISSN: 15270904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3398/1527-0904(2007)67[299:EOPFBO]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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