Restoration of agricultural fields to diverse wet prairie plant communities in the Willamette Valley, Oregon

Northwest Science

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 269-287

  Wold, Eric N ^a   Jancaitis, Jean E ^a,b   Taylor, Trevor H ^a   Steeck, Diane M ^a  

^a City of Eugene   (United States)

^b THE NATURE CONSERVANCY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; COLONIZATION; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; GROWING SEASON; IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS; LANDOWNER; NATIVE SPECIES; PLANT COMMUNITY; PRAIRIE; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SUCCESSION;

OREGON; UNITED STATES; WILLAMETTE VALLEY;

EID: 79959540662     PISSN: 0029344X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3955/046.085.0215     Document Type: Article

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