Costs and losses imposed on California ranchers by yellow starthistle

Rangeland Ecology and Management

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 369-377

  Eagle, Alison J ^a   Eiswerth, Mark E ^b   Johnson, Wayne S ^c   Schoenig, Steve E ^d   Van Kooten, G Cornelis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN WHITEWATER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF FOOD AND AGRICULTURE   (United States)

Author keywords

Forage values; Invasive weed economics; Invasive weeds; Nonnative species

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DICOTYLEDON; FORAGE; INVASIVE SPECIES; LIVESTOCK; PASTURE; RANCHING; WEED;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

BOS; CENTAUREA; CENTAUREA SOLSTITIALIS;

EID: 34547639570     PISSN: 15507424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2111/1551-5028(2007)60[369:CALIOC]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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