Plant species diversity in remnant grasslands on arable soils in the cropping Pampa

Plant Ecology

Volumn 212, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1009-1024

  Burkart, Silvia E ^a,b   León, Rolando J C ^a,b   Conde, María C ^b   Perelman, Susana B ^a,b  

^a Instituto de Investigaciones Fisiologicas y Ecologicas   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Agricultural landscape; Environmental variables; Exotics; Invasibility; Native grasses; Plant functional groups

Indexed keywords

AGRONOMY; ARABLE LAND; BASELINE CONDITIONS; BIODIVERSITY; CANONICAL ANALYSIS; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DECISION MAKING; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; GRASS; GRASSLAND; HETEROGENEITY; INVASIVE SPECIES; NATIVE SPECIES; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; WATER AVAILABILITY;

ARGENTINA; PAMPAS;

POACEAE;

EID: 79956135743     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-010-9881-z     Document Type: Article

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