Post-Fire Control of Invasive Plants Promotes Native Recovery in a Burned Desert Shrubland

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 18, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2010, Pages 334-343

  Steers, Robert J ^a   Allen, Edith B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

California; Creosote bush scrub; Fire feedback; Fusilade; Grass fire cycle; Restoration

Indexed keywords

DESERT; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; FIRE; INVASIVE SPECIES; LAND RECLAMATION; NATIVE SPECIES; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SHRUBLAND;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

LARREA TRIDENTATA; POACEAE;

EID: 77956905155     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2009.00622.x     Document Type: Article

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