Land-Use legacies and vegetation recovery 90 years after cultivation in great basin sagebrush ecosystems

Rangeland Ecology and Management

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 488-497

  Morris, L R ^a   Monaco, T A ^a   Sheley, R L ^b  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

alternate stable states; dry farming; ex arable fields; old fields; secondary succession; site history

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; CULTIVATION; DISTURBANCE; DOMINANCE; GRASS; LAND USE; MEASUREMENT METHOD; NATIVE SPECIES; PLANT COMMUNITY; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SHRUB; SUCCESSION; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

UNITED STATES;

ARTEMISIA; ARTEMISIA TRIDENTATA; ARTEMISIA TRIDENTATA WYOMINGENSIS; BROMUS; BROMUS TECTORUM; CHRYSOTHAMNUS VISCIDIFLORUS; COLEOPTERA; ELYMUS; ELYMUS ELYMOIDES; PHLOX HOODII; POACEAE; SARCOBATUS; SARCOBATUS VERMICULATUS;

EID: 79955112252     PISSN: 15507424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2111/REM-D-10-00147.1     Document Type: Article

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