Using Mounds to Create Microtopography Alters Plant Community Development Early in Restoration

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 19, Issue SPEC.ISSUE, 2011, Pages 53-61

  Biederman, Lori A ^a,b   Whisenant, Steven G ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Functional groups; Landfill mitigation; Mixed grass prairie; Plant diversity; Texas; U.S.A.

Indexed keywords

GROWING SEASON; GROWTH RESPONSE; HABITAT RESTORATION; MICROTOPOGRAPHY; PLANT COMMUNITY; PRAIRIE; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES RICHNESS; SURVIVAL;

TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

POACEAE;

EID: 78651310883     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2010.00670.x     Document Type: Article

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