Effects of disturbance on population biology of the rosette species Eryngium horridum Malme in grasslands in southern Brazil

Plant Ecology

Volumn 195, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 55-67

  Fidelis, Alessandra ^a   Overbeck, Gerhard ^a   Pillar, Valério DePatta ^b   Pfadenhauer, Jörg ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Eryngium horridum; Fire; Grasslands; Grazing; Population biology; Rosette species

Indexed keywords

BIOME; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DISTURBANCE; GRASSLAND; GRAZING PRESSURE; HERB; SURVIVAL; WEED; WILDFIRE;

BRAZIL; SOUTH AMERICA;

APIACEAE; APIALES; ERYNGIUM; ERYNGIUM HORRIDUM;

EID: 38749089445     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-007-9298-5     Document Type: Article

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