Vegetation characteristics of mountain and wyoming big sagebrush plant communities in the Northern Great Basin

Rangeland Ecology and Management

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 461-466

  Davies, Kirk W ^a   Bates, Jon D ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Artemisia tridentata; diversity; habitat; herbaceous cover; sage grouse

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; BIRD; DOMINANCE; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GRAZING; HABITAT TYPE; MOUNTAIN REGION; PERENNIAL PLANT; PLANT COMMUNITY; POPULATION DENSITY; RANGELAND; SHRUB; SPECIES DIVERSITY; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

GREAT BASIN; UNITED STATES; WYOMING;

EID: 77954743917     PISSN: 15507424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2111/REM-D-09-00055.1     Document Type: Article

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