Responses of native and introduced plant species to sucrose addition in Puget lowland prairies

Northwest Science

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 255-268

  Kirkpatrick, H Elizabeth ^a   Lubetkin, Kaitlin C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND   (United States)

^b Embedded Systems and Automation Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; GRASS; INTRODUCED SPECIES; LEGUME; LOWLAND ENVIRONMENT; NATIVE SPECIES; NITRATE; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT; PRAIRIE; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; SOIL CARBON; SOIL NITROGEN; SUCROSE;

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

AGROSTIS; AGROSTIS CAPILLARIS; CYTISUS; CYTISUS SCOPARIUS; HYPOCHAERIS RADICATA; POACEAE;

EID: 79959554947     PISSN: 0029344X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3955/046.085.0214     Document Type: Article

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