Plant community functional shifts in response to livestock grazing in intermountain depressional wetlands in British Columbia, Canada

Biological Conservation

Volumn 144, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 511-517

  Jones, W Marc ^a   Fraser, Lauchlan H ^b   Curtis, P Jefferson ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b THOMPSON RIVERS UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Depressional wetlands; Disturbance gradient; Functional groups; Livestock grazing; Marsh; Wet meadow

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DISTURBANCE; DOMINANCE; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; FUNCTIONAL CHANGE; GRAZING; HABITAT RESTORATION; INVASIVE SPECIES; LIVESTOCK; MARSH; MEADOW; NATIVE SPECIES; PLANT COMMUNITY; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SPECIES RICHNESS; VEGETATION TYPE;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA;

ANATIDAE;

EID: 78751575339     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2010.10.005     Document Type: Article

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