Impacts of buffelgrass (pennisetum ciliare) on a forb community in south Texas

Invasive Plant Science and Management

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 130-140

  Sands, Joseph P ^a   Brennan, Leonard A ^a   Hernández, Fidel ^a   Kuvlesky Jr , William P ^a   Gallagher, James F ^b,c   Ruthven III, Donald C ^b,d   Pittman III, James E ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY KINGSVILLE   (United States)

^b Wildlife Department   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d TEXAS PARKS AND WILDLIFE DEPARTMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

Buffelgrass; Exotic grasses; Introduced species; Texas

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPODA; AVES; COLINUS VIRGINIANUS; ERAGROSTIS LEHMANNIANA; PENNISETUM CILIARE; PENNISETUM GLAUCUM; POACEAE;

EID: 70349970399     PISSN: 19397291     EISSN: 1939747X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1614/IPSM-08-124.1     Document Type: Article

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