Suppression of the woodland herb senna hebecarpa by the invasive grass microstegium vimineum

American Midland Naturalist

Volumn 165, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 105-115

  Bauer, Jonathan T ^a   Flory, S Luke ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; GRASS; GROWTH RESPONSE; HERB; INVASIVE SPECIES; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SOIL NUTRIENT; SOIL-VEGETATION INTERACTION; WOODLAND;

MICROSTEGIUM; MICROSTEGIUM VIMINEUM; SENNA; SENNA HEBECARPA;

EID: 78650923607     PISSN: 00030031     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1674/0003-0031-165.1.105     Document Type: Article

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