Carbon addition as a technique for controlling exotic species in Pacific Northwest prairies

Northwest Science

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 247-254

  Mitchell, Rachel M ^a   Bakker, Jonathan D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; ACTIVATED CARBON; BASAL AREA; GRASS; GRASSLAND; GROWING SEASON; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HERBICIDE; LEGUME; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PESTICIDE APPLICATION; PLANT COMMUNITY; PRAIRIE; SOIL CARBON; SOIL NITROGEN; SPECIES RICHNESS; SUGAR; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

PACIFIC NORTHWEST;

MYOSOTIS DISCOLOR; POACEAE; SONCHUS; SONCHUS ASPER; TARAXACUM OFFICINALE; VALERIANELLA; VALERIANELLA LOCUSTA; VULPIA BROMOIDES;

EID: 79959563816     PISSN: 0029344X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3955/046.085.0213     Document Type: Article

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