The role of herbicide in savanna restoration: Effects of shrub reduction treatments on the understory and overstory of a longleaf pine flatwoods

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 257, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 978-986

  Freeman, Johanna E ^a   Jose, Shibu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aristida stricta Michx.; Fire; Herbicide; Hexazinone; Imazapyr; Pinus palustris Mill.; Sulfometuron methyl

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; FIRES; FORESTRY; GROWTH (MATERIALS); PEST CONTROL; PESTICIDES; TANKS (CONTAINERS); WEED CONTROL;

ARISTIDA STRICTA MICHX.; HEXAZINONE; IMAZAPYR; PINUS PALUSTRIS MILL.; SULFOMETURON METHYL;

HERBICIDES;

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DOMINANCE; FOREST FIRE; HERBICIDE; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SAVANNA; SEASONALITY; SHRUB; UNDERSTORY;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ARISTIDA STRICTA; PINUS ELLIOTTII; PINUS PALUSTRIS; QUERCUS;

EID: 58149302682     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2008.10.041     Document Type: Article

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