Assessing plant community changes over sixteen years of restoration in a remnant Michigan tallgrass prairie

American Midland Naturalist

Volumn 164, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 322-336

  Heslinga, Justin L ^a   Grese, Robert E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; C4 PLANT; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; FIRE BEHAVIOR; GROWING SEASON; INVASIVE SPECIES; NATIVE SPECIES; PLANT COMMUNITY; PRAIRIE; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

MICHIGAN; UNITED STATES;

ANDROPOGON; ANDROPOGON GERARDII;

EID: 77957365468     PISSN: 00030031     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1674/0003-0031-164.2.322     Document Type: Article

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