Plant Community Recovery Following Restoration in Semiarid Grasslands

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 656-663

  Munson, Seth M ^a,b   Lauenroth, William K ^c  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b Canyonlands Research Station   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

Conservation Reserve Program; Cultivation; Disturbance; Perennial grass; Plant functional type; Shortgrass steppe; Succession

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GRASSLAND; HABITAT RESTORATION; PLANT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SEMIARID REGION; STEPPE; SUCCESSION; VEGETATION COVER;

UNITED STATES;

POACEAE;

EID: 84855942941     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2011.00808.x     Document Type: Article

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