Testing Disturbance, Seeding Time, and Soil Amendments for Establishing Native Warm-Season Grasses in Non-Native Cool-Season Pasture

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 19, Issue SPEC.ISSUE, 2011, Pages 1-8

  Doll, Julie E ^a   Haubensak, Karen A ^b   Bouressa, Emma L ^c   Jackson, Randall D ^c  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

ANCOVA; Carbon addition; Grazed pasture; Linear mixed effects models; Regression tree; Tallgrass prairie

Indexed keywords

BELOWGROUND PRODUCTION; GRAZING; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT; PASTURE; REINTRODUCTION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; SOIL AMENDMENT;

ANDROPOGON; ANDROPOGON GERARDII; PANICUM VIRGATUM; POACEAE; SORGHASTRUM; SORGHASTRUM NUTANS;

EID: 78651336405     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2010.00687.x     Document Type: Article

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