Set-backs in replacing phalaris arundinacea monotypes with sedge meadow vegetation

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 155-164

  Healy, Michael T ^a,b   Zedler, Joy B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b Adaptive Restoration LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative states model; Graminicide; Herbicide; Reed canary grass; Wetland

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; DOMINANCE; HERBICIDE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INVASIVE SPECIES; MEADOW; SEDGE; VEGETATION; WETLAND;

PHALARIS; PHALARIS ARUNDINACEA; POACEAE;

EID: 77954371224     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2009.00645.x     Document Type: Article

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