Relationships between groundwater use, water table, and recovery of willow on Yellowstone's northern range

Ecosphere

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Johnston, Danielle B ^a   Cooper, David J ^a   Hobbs, N Thompson ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Beaver; Elk; Restoration ecology; Riparian vegetation; Salix geyeriana; Stable oxygen isotopes; Water sources; Yellowstone

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867818621     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21508925     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/ES10-00150.1     Document Type: Article

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