Seeding cool-season grasses to suppress broom snakeweed (Gutierrezia sarothrae downy brome (bromus tectorum), and weedy forbs

Invasive Plant Science and Management

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 237-246

  Thacker, Eric ^b,c   Ralphs, Michael H ^a   Monaco, Thomas A ^a  

^a U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^b USDA ARS Forage and Range Research Laboratory   (United States)

^c UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Competition; Poisonous plant; Successional weed management; Weed resistant communities

Indexed keywords

AGROPYRON CRISTATUM; ARTEMISIA TRIDENTATA; BASSIA PROSTRATA; BROMUS; BROMUS TECTORUM; ELYMUS MULTISETUS; GUTIERREZIA SAROTHRAE; KOCHIA; PASCOPYRUM SMITHII; POACEAE; PSATHYROSTACHYS JUNCEA;

EID: 70349591651     PISSN: 19397291     EISSN: 1939747X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1614/IPSM-08-129.1     Document Type: Article

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