Restoration of Native Plant Communities after Road Decommissioning in the Rocky Mountains: Effect of Seed-Mix Composition on Vegetative Establishment

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 19, Issue 201, 2011, Pages 160-169

  Grant, Ashley S ^a   Nelson, Cara R ^a   Switalski, Thomas Adam ^b   Rinehart, Susan M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b Wildlands CPR   (United States)

^c USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Native plant restoration; Native seeding; Revegetation; Road obliteration; Seed establishment

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DECOMMISSIONING; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; PLANT COMMUNITY; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; REVEGETATION; SEEDING; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT;

ROCKY MOUNTAINS;

EID: 79952210758     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2010.00736.x     Document Type: Article

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