Restoration of Midwestern U.S. savannas: One size does not fit all

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 772-783

  Dettman, Connie L ^a,b   Mabry, Catherine M ^a,b   Schulte, Lisa A ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Iowa Department of Natural Resources   (United States)

Author keywords

Alluvial soils; Flood disturbance; Floodplain vegetation; General Land Office (GLO); Pre Euro American settlement; Public Land Survey (PLS)

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; FLOODING; LOWLAND ENVIRONMENT; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SAVANNA;

MIDWEST; UNITED STATES;

QUERCUS;

EID: 77958616463     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2008.00413.x     Document Type: Article

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