Subhumid pasture plant communities entrained by management

Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment

Volumn 129, Issue 1-3, 2009, Pages 83-90

  Woodis, Julie E ^a   Jackson, Randall D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Burning; Carbon addition; Grazing; Nitrogen addition; Nonmetric multidimensional scaling (NMS); Ordination; Variance partitioning

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ECOSYSTEM; AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; ENTRAINMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; GRASSLAND; LAND USE CHANGE; NATIVE SPECIES; PASTURE; PLANT COMMUNITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; VEGETATION COVER;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

POACEAE; TRIFOLIUM;

EID: 56449090308     PISSN: 01678809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agee.2008.07.006     Document Type: Article

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