Restoring competitors and natural enemies for long-term control of plant invaders

Rangelands

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 16-20

  Blumenthal, Dana M ^a   Norton, Andrew P ^b   Seastedt, Timothy R ^c  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARIDITY; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; GRASS; HERBICIDE; INVASIVE SPECIES; NATIVE SPECIES; NATURAL ENEMY; OVERGRAZING; PERENNIAL PLANT; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SOIL NUTRIENT;

AUSTRALIA;

THEMEDA AUSTRALIS;

EID: 77649221387     PISSN: 01900528     EISSN: 1551501X     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.2111/RANGELANDS-D-09-00008.1     Document Type: Article

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