Effects of vegetation removal on native understory recovery in an exotic-rich urban forest

Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society

Volumn 134, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 410-419

  Vidra, Rebecca L ^a   Shear, Theodore H ^b   Stucky, Jon M ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Exotic species removal; Forest restoration; Seedbank study; Urban forests

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; BIOLOGICAL SURVEY; CLIPPING; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; FOREST DYNAMICS; NATIVE SPECIES; REMOVAL EXPERIMENT; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SEED BANK; SHRUB; SPECIES RICHNESS; UNDERSTORY; URBAN FORESTRY; VEGETATION;

NORTH AMERICA; NORTH CAROLINA; RALEIGH; UNITED STATES;

ELAEAGNUS UMBELLATA; LIGUSTRUM; LIGUSTRUM SINENSE; LONICERA; LONICERA JAPONICA; MICROSTEGIUM VIMINEUM;

EID: 36849022499     PISSN: 10955674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3159/1095-5674(2007)134[410:EOVRON]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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