Seedling Recruitment in the Long-Lived Perennial, Echinacea angustifolia: A 10-Year Experiment

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 352-359

  Wagenius, Stuart ^a   Dykstra, Amy B ^b   Ridley, Caroline E ^b   Shaw, Ruth G ^b  

^a CHICAGO BOTANIC GARDEN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Echinacea angustifolia; Establishment limitation; Fire; Fragmentation; Minnesota; Reintroduction; Restoration; Tallgrass prairie

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GERMINATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; JUVENILE; PERENNIAL PLANT; PRAIRIE; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); REINTRODUCTION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SEEDLING EMERGENCE; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; SURVIVAL;

MINNESOTA; UNITED STATES;

ECHINACEA ANGUSTIFOLIA; POACEAE;

EID: 84860111008     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2011.00775.x     Document Type: Article

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