Root responses to short-lived pulses of soil nutrients and shoot defoliation in seedlings of three rangeland grasses

Rangeland Ecology and Management

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 470-479

  Arredondo, José Tulio ^a,c   Johnson, Douglas A ^b  

^a INSTITUTO POTOSINO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA Y TECNOLÓGICA   (Mexico)

^b UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Dept of Rangeland Resources ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Agropyron cristatum; Agropyron desertorum; Bromus tectorum; Clipping; Nutrient enriched soil patches; Pseudoroegneria spicata; Root foraging; Soil resources; Soil nutrient heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS ALLOCATION; DEFOLIATION; ECOPHYSIOLOGY; GRASS; GROWTH RATE; INVASIVE SPECIES; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; RANGELAND; ROOT SYSTEM; SEEDLING; SOIL NUTRIENT;

BASIN AND RANGE PROVINCE; GREAT BASIN; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

AGROPYRON; AGROPYRON CRISTATUM; AGROPYRON DESERTORUM; BROMUS; BROMUS TECTORUM; POACEAE; PSEUDOROEGNERIA SPICATA;

EID: 70349665360     PISSN: 15507424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2111/08-151.1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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