Changing Soils to Manage Plant Communities: Activated Carbon as a Restoration Tool in Ex-arable Fields

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 19, Issue SPEC.ISSUE, 2011, Pages 102-110

  Kulmatiski, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA ANCHORAGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Allelopathy; Bromus tectorum; Centaurea diffusa; Disturbance; Exotic invasion; Native plant; PLFA; Pseudoroegneria spicata; Shrub steppe; Soil microbial community; Tillage

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ACTIVATED CARBON; ALLELOPATHY; ARABLE LAND; GRASS; INVASIVE SPECIES; PLANT COMMUNITY; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SOIL MICROORGANISM; STEPPE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BROMUS; BROMUS TECTORUM; CENTAUREA; CENTAUREA DIFFUSA; PSEUDOROEGNERIA SPICATA;

EID: 78651275668     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2009.00632.x     Document Type: Article

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