Successional trends in Floristic Quality

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 339-348

  Spyreas, Greg ^a,b   Meiners, Scott J ^c   Matthews, Jeffrey W ^a,b   Molano Flores, Brenda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c EASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic disturbance; Conservation value; Deterministic vs. stochastic succession; Floristic Quality Assessment; Floristic Quality Index; Invasion impacts; Mean C; Remnant flora; Restoration monitoring; Successional trajectory

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DISTURBANCE; FLORA; HABITAT RESTORATION; LINEARITY; PLANT COMMUNITY; REFORESTATION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SUCCESSION;

EID: 84859160295     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: 13652664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2011.02100.x     Document Type: Article

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