Concurrent effects of fire regime, grazing and bison wallowing on tallgrass prairie vegetation

American Midland Naturalist

Volumn 152, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 237-247

  Trager, Matthew D ^a   Wilson, Gail W T ^b   Hartnett, David C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; FIRE; GRAZING; PHYSICAL DISTURBANCE; PLANT COMMUNITY; PRAIRIE; UNGULATE;

KANSAS; KONZA PRAIRIE; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

ANIMALIA; BISON; BUBALUS; UNGULATA;

EID: 7744243422     PISSN: 00030031     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1674/0003-0031(2004)152[0237:CEOFRG]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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