Persistence of native C4 grasses under high-intensity, short-duration summer bison grazing in the eastern tallgrass prairie

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 65-73

  Jackson, Randall D ^a,b   Paine, Laura K ^b   Woodis, Julie E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b 2811 Agriculture Drive   (United States)

Author keywords

Functional groups; Grassland; Linear mixed effects models; Livestock; Prairie

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; GRASS; GRASSLAND; GRAZING PRESSURE; LEGUME; LIVESTOCK; POPULATION DECLINE; PRAIRIE; RECOLONIZATION; SUMMER;

UNITED STATES; WISCONSIN;

ANDROPOGON; ANDROPOGON GERARDII; BISON; BOUTELOUA CURTIPENDULA; PANICUM VIRGATUM; POACEAE; SCHIZACHYRIUM; SCHIZACHYRIUM SCOPARIUM; SORGHASTRUM; SORGHASTRUM NUTANS;

EID: 73949156818     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2008.00439.x     Document Type: Article

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