Can an Ecoregion Serve as a Seed Transfer Zone? Evidence from a Common Garden Study with Five Native Species

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 19, Issue 201, 2011, Pages 268-276

  Miller, Stephanie A ^a,b   Bartow, Amy ^c   Gisler, Melanie ^a   Ward, Kimiora ^a   Young, Amy S ^a   Kaye, Thomas N ^a  

^a Institute for Applied Ecology   (United States)

^b OREGON DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND WILDLIFE   (United States)

^c USDA NRCS   (United States)

Author keywords

Common garden; Ecoregion; Restoration; Seed transfer zone

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; ECOREGION; HABITAT RESTORATION; MORPHOLOGY; NATIVE SPECIES; ORDINATION; PHENOLOGY; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; TRANSFER ZONE;

OREGON; PACIFIC NORTHWEST; UNITED STATES; WILLAMETTE VALLEY;

EPILOBIUM; EPILOBIUM DENSIFLORUM; ERIOPHYLLUM LANATUM; LEUCOPHYLLUM; LUPINUS POLYPHYLLUS; POTENTILLA; POTENTILLA GRACILIS; SAXIFRAGA OREGANA;

EID: 79952203012     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2010.00702.x     Document Type: Article

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