A common-garden study of resource-Island effects on a native and an exotic, annual grass after fire

Rangeland Ecology and Management

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 160-170

  Hoover, Amber N ^a   Germino, Matthew J ^a,b  

^a Nucl Eng Idaho State University   (United States)

^b FOREST AND RANGELAND ECOSYSTEM SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

bluebunch wheatgrass; cheatgrass; coppice; heterogeneity; interspace; sagebrush

Indexed keywords

DRY MATTER; FIRE BEHAVIOR; GARDEN; GRASS; HABITAT RESTORATION; HERB; HETEROGENEITY; INVASIVE SPECIES; MOISTURE; NATIVE SPECIES; PERENNIAL PLANT; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RANGELAND; RESOURCE USE; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT;

IDAHO; UNITED STATES;

ARTEMISIA TRIDENTATA; BROMUS; BROMUS TECTORUM; POACEAE; PSEUDOROEGNERIA SPICATA;

EID: 84858955627     PISSN: 15507424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2111/REM-D-11-00026.1     Document Type: Article

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