Impacts of land use on riparian forest along an urban - Rural gradient in southern Manitoba

Plant Ecology

Volumn 174, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 119-135

  Moffatt, S F ^a   McLachlan, S M ^a   Kenkel, N C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Disturbance; Exotic species; Fragmentation; Landscape; Multivariate analysis; Urbanisation

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CONNECTIVITY; DISTURBANCE; FRAGMENTATION; INVASIVE SPECIES; LAND USE; RIPARIAN FOREST;

ASSINIBOINE RIVER; CANADA; MANITOBA; NORTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

CARAGANA; CARAGANA ARBORESCENS; CAREX; CAREX AQUATILIS; HESPERIS MATRONALIS; RHAMNUS; RHAMNUS CATHARTICA; RIPARIA; SCHOENOPLECTUS FLUVIATILIS; SCIRPUS; SOLANUM; SOLANUM DULCAMARA;

EID: 7244253078     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:VEGE.0000046055.27285.fd     Document Type: Article

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