Restoring native vegetation to an urban wet meadow dominated by reed canarygrass (Phalaris arundinacea L.) in Wisconsin

Natural Areas Journal

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 354-365

  Wilcox, Julia C ^a   Healy, Michael T ^b   Zedler, Joy B ^b  

^a WISCONSIN DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Glyphosate; Invasive species; Phalaris arundinacea; Reed canarygrass; Sethoxydim; Wetlands

Indexed keywords

BURNING; CLIPPING; GRASS; HERBICIDE; INVASIVE SPECIES; MEADOW; NATIVE SPECIES; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SEEDING; SPECIES RICHNESS; URBAN AREA; VEGETATION; VEGETATION COVER;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WISCONSIN;

PHALARIS; PHALARIS ARUNDINACEA;

EID: 35948943190     PISSN: 08858608     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3375/0885-8608(2007)27[354:RNVTAU]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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