The importance of soil characteristics in determining survival of first-year cottonwood seedlings in altered riparian habitats

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 563-571

  Bhattacharjee, Joydeep ^a,b   Taylor, John P ^c   Smith, Loren M ^a,d   Spence, Liter E ^e  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT MONROE   (United States)

^c Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge   (United States)

^d OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cottonwood seedling; Middle Rio Grande Valley; Populus deltoides; Riparian restoration; Soil moisture; Soil texture

Indexed keywords

ANGIOSPERM; BIOTIC FACTOR; HYDROLOGICAL REGIME; NATIVE SPECIES; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; RIPARIAN FOREST; SEEDLING; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL TEXTURE; SURVIVAL;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

AMARANTHUS; ECHINOCHLOA; ECHINOCHLOA CRUS-GALLI; POPULUS; POPULUS DELTOIDES; TAMARIX CHINENSIS;

EID: 57049139427     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2007.00328.x     Document Type: Article

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