Generating quantitative regional plant community descriptions for restoration

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 42-50

  Lane, Cynthia P ^a   Texler, Hannah D ^b  

^a Great River Greening   (United States)

^b MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecological classification system; Ecological restoration; Midwest; Non native species; Ordination; Plant community; Rare species; Reference ecosystems; Species lists

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; DATA SET; ORDINATION; PATCH SIZE; PLANT COMMUNITY; RARE SPECIES; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SPECIES INVENTORY;

MINNESOTA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 58149485442     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2007.00331.x     Document Type: Article

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