Increased snow facilitates plant invasion in mixedgrass prairie

New Phytologist

Volumn 179, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 440-448

  Blumenthal, D ^a   Chimner, R A ^b   Welker, J M ^b,c   Morgan, J A ^a  

^a U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA ANCHORAGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Altered precipitation; Centaurea diffusa (diffuse knapweed); Climate change; Grassland; Gypsophila paniculata (baby's breath); Linaria dalmatica (Dalmatian toadflax); Nitrogen (N) deposition; Plant invasion

Indexed keywords

SNOW; WATER;

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; ABUNDANCE; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DICOTYLEDON; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; INVASIVE SPECIES; IRRIGATION SYSTEM; NITROGEN; PRAIRIE; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SNOW; WEED;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CHEMISTRY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; PHYSIOLOGY; POACEAE; SOIL; UNITED STATES;

BIOMASS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; POACEAE; SNOW; SOIL; WATER; WYOMING;

CENTAUREA; CENTAUREA DIFFUSA; GYPSOPHILA PANICULATA; LINARIA; LINARIA DALMATICA;

EID: 47249155658     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2008.02475.x     Document Type: Article

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