Winter litter disturbance facilitates the spread of the nonnative invasive grass Microstegium vimineum (Trin.) A. Camus

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 249, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 199-203

  Oswalt, Christopher M ^a   Oswalt, Sonja N ^a  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dispersal; Disturbance; Invasive species; Japangrass; Litter layer; Microstegium vimineum; Nepalese browntop; Regeneration; Seed ecology

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; FORESTRY;

DISTURBANCE; INVASIVE SPECIES; MICROSTEGIUM VIMINEUM; NEPALESE BROWNTOP; SEED ECOLOGY;

VEGETATION;

CANOPY; DISPERSAL; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; GRASS; GROWING SEASON; GROWTH RESPONSE; INVASIVE SPECIES; LIGHT AVAILABILITY; LITTER; PATCH DYNAMICS; REGENERATION; REMOVAL EXPERIMENT; WINTER;

ECOLOGY; FOREST LITTER; PLANTS;

ANIMALIA; MICROSTEGIUM VIMINEUM;

EID: 34548211525     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2007.05.007     Document Type: Article

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