Restoration of Native Warm Season Grassland Species in a Tall Fescue Pasture Using Prescribed Fire and Herbicides

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 194-201

  Hall, Sarah L ^a,b   Mcculley, Rebecca L ^b   Barney, Robert J ^a,c  

^a KENTUCKY STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^c WEST VIRGINIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Festuca Arundinacea; Fungal Endophyte; Grassland restoration; Neotyphodium coenophialum; Pasture renovation; Schedonorus phoenix

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DOMINANCE; ENDOPHYTE; GRASSLAND; HOST PLANT; NATIVE SPECIES; PASTURE; PERENNIAL PLANT; PLANT COMMUNITY; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SPECIES RICHNESS; SUCCESSION;

UNITED STATES;

FESTUCA ARUNDINACEA; NEOTYPHODIUM; NEOTYPHODIUM COENOPHIALUM; POACEAE;

EID: 84857966020     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2010.00749.x     Document Type: Article

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