Vegetation response to mowing dense mountain big sagebrush stands

Rangeland Ecology and Management

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 268-276

  Davies, K W ^a   Bates, J D ^a   Nafus, A M ^b  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Annual grass; Artemisia tridentate; Brush management; Disturbance; Forage; Range improvements

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; GRASS; GROWING SEASON; HERB; MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENT; MOWING; PERENNIAL PLANT; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; PLANT COMMUNITY; STAND STRUCTURE; UNDERSTORY; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

ARTEMISIA; ARTEMISIA TRIDENTATA; ARTEMISIA TRIDENTATA VASEYANA; COLEOPTERA; POACEAE;

EID: 84866565369     PISSN: 15507424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2111/REM-D-11-00146.1     Document Type: Article

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