Strategic light manipulation as a restoration strategy to reduce alien grasses and encourage native regeneration in Hawaiian mesic forests

Applied Vegetation Science

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 280-290

  McDaniel, S ^a   Ostertag, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT HILO   (United States)

Author keywords

Arrested succession; Invasive species; Secondary forest; Understory vegetation

Indexed keywords

ACACIA KOA; POACEAE;

EID: 77954348306     PISSN: 14022001     EISSN: 1654109X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1654-109X.2009.01074.x     Document Type: Article

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