Responses of prairie vegetation to fire, herbicide, and invasive species legacy

Northwest Science

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 288-302

  Rook, Erik J ^a   Fischer, Dylan G ^a   Seyferth, Rebecca D ^a   Kirsch, Justin L ^a   Leroy, Carri J ^a   Hamman, Sarah ^b  

^a EVERGREEN STATE COLLEGE   (United States)

^b THE NATURE CONSERVANCY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GIS; HABITAT RESTORATION; HERBICIDE; HISTORICAL ECOLOGY; INVASIVE SPECIES; LEGUME; PESTICIDE APPLICATION; PLANT COMMUNITY; PRAIRIE; PRESCRIBED BURNING; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

PUGET LOWLAND; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES];

CYTISUS; CYTISUS SCOPARIUS;

EID: 79959544476     PISSN: 0029344X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3955/046.085.0216     Document Type: Review

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