The roles of exotic grasses and forbs when restoring native species to highly invaded southern California annual grassland

Plant Ecology

Volumn 212, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1699-1707

  Cox, Robert D ^a,b   Allen, Edith B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bromus; California annual grassland; Coastal sage scrub; Erodium; Grassland restoration; Removal experiment

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ANNUAL PLANT; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DOMINANCE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GRASS; HABITAT RESTORATION; INVASIVE SPECIES; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; NATIVE SPECIES; PLANT COMMUNITY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REMOVAL EXPERIMENT; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SCRUB; SEEDING; SEEDLING; SEMIARID REGION; SHRUB; SHRUBLAND; VEGETATION COVER;

UNITED STATES;

BROMUS; ERODIUM; POACEAE;

EID: 80052832783     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-011-9942-y     Document Type: Article

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