Similarity between grassland vegetation and seed bank shifts with altered precipitation and clipping, but not warming

Community Ecology

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 129-136

  White, S R ^a   Bork, E W ^a   Karst, J ^a   Cahill, J F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Disturbance; Global change; Grazing; Plant ecology; Rangeland

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIPPING; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; GLOBAL CHANGE; GRASSLAND; GRAZING; GRAZING MANAGEMENT; LAND USE CHANGE; PHYTOSOCIOLOGY; PLANT COMMUNITY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RANGELAND; SEED BANK; SIMILARITY INDEX; SUCCESSION; WARMING;

EID: 84875756665     PISSN: 15858553     EISSN: 15882756     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1556/ComEc.13.2012.2.1     Document Type: Article

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