Restoring plant species diversity and community composition in a ponderosa pine-bunchgrass ecosystem

Plant Ecology

Volumn 197, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 139-151

  Laughlin, Daniel C ^a   Bakker, Jonathan D ^b   Daniels, Mark L ^a   Moore, Margaret M ^a   Casey, Cheryl A ^c   Springer, Judith D ^a  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c Yavapai College   (United States)

Author keywords

Long term studies; Permutational MANOVA; Pinus ponderosa; Prescribed fire; Species richness; Thinning; Understory

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONIFEROUS TREE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ECOSYSTEM STRUCTURE; GRASS; PRESCRIBED BURNING; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; THINNING;

PINUS PONDEROSA;

EID: 44349088329     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-007-9367-9     Document Type: Article

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