Allelopathy: A tool for weed management in forest restoration

Plant Ecology

Volumn 213, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1975-1989

  Cummings, Justin A ^a   Parker, Ingrid M ^a,b   Gilbert, Gregory S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

Allelopathy; Forest restoration; Homeland security hypothesis; Legumes; Novel weapons hypothesis; Saccharum spontaneum

Indexed keywords

AGROFORESTRY; ALLELOCHEMICAL; ALLELOPATHY; C4 PLANT; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); DISTURBANCE; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; GROWTH; INHIBITOR; INVASIVE SPECIES; LEAF LITTER; LEGUME; REFORESTATION; REGENERATION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SUCCESSION; WEED CONTROL;

PANAMA [CENTRAL AMERICA];

POACEAE; SACCHARUM SPONTANEUM;

EID: 84871933581     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-012-0154-x     Document Type: Article

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