Evaluation of herbicides for restoring native grasses in buffelgrass-dominated grasslands

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 263-269

  Tjelmeland, Aaron D ^a   Fulbright, Timothy E ^a   Lloyd Reilley, John ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY KINGSVILLE   (United States)

^b U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

Author keywords

Buffelgrass; Chloris spp.; Herbicides; Native grasses; Pennisetum ciliare; Tebuthiuron

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; GRASS; GRASSLAND; HERBICIDE; NATIVE SPECIES; RESTORATION ECOLOGY;

DUVAL COUNTY [TEXAS]; NORTH AMERICA; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

CHLORIS; CHLORIS PLURIFLORA; LEPTOCHLOA DUBIA; PENNISETUM CILIARE; PENNISETUM GLAUCUM; POACEAE; SETARIA (PLANT); SETARIA LEUCOPILA; TRICHLORIS;

EID: 44349139485     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2007.00269.x     Document Type: Article

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