Promoting Native Vegetation and Diversity in Exotic Annual Grass Infestations

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 159-165

  Davies, Kirk W ^a   Sheley, Roger L ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Herbicide; Imazapic; Invasion; Medusahead; Prescribed burning; Taeniatherum caput medusae; Weeds

Indexed keywords

BURNING; GRASS; HERBICIDE; INVASIVE SPECIES; PERENNIAL PLANT; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; WEED;

TAENIATHERUM; TAENIATHERUM CAPUT-MEDUSAE;

EID: 77957232429     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2009.00548.x     Document Type: Article

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