The effects of fire frequency and grazing on tallgrass prairie productivity and plant composition are mediated through bud bank demography

Plant Ecology

Volumn 201, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 411-420

  Dalgleish, Harmony J ^a,b   Hartnett, David C ^a  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bud bank; Fire; Grazing; Konza Prairie LTER; Meristem; Vegetative reproduction

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; BUD; BURNING; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DEMOGRAPHY; EMERGENCE; GLOBAL CHANGE; GRASS; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; PRAIRIE; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; VEGETATIVE REPRODUCTION;

KANSAS; KONZA PRAIRIE; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 67349121728     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-008-9562-3     Document Type: Article

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