Longleaf pine (Pinus palustris P. Mill.) restoration using herbicides: Overstory and understory vegetation responses on a coastal plain flatwoods site in Florida, U.S.A.

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 244-251

  Jose, Shibu ^a   Ranasinghe, Sanjaya ^a   Ramsey, Craig L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Hexazinone; Imazapyr; Restoration; Shrub control; Sulfometuron methyl; Understory; Wiregrass

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; COASTAL PLAIN; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); CONIFEROUS TREE; GRASS; GROWTH; HERBICIDE; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SEEDLING; SHRUB; SURVIVAL; UNDERSTORY; VEGETATION;

FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

PINUS ELLIOTTII; PINUS PALUSTRIS; POACEAE; QUERCUS PUMILA;

EID: 77954374043     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2008.00440.x     Document Type: Article

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