Repeated burning of eastern tallgrass prairie increases richness and diversity, stabilizing late successional vegetation

Ecological Applications

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 464-478

  Bowles, Marlin L ^a   Jones, Michael D ^b  

^a MORTON ARBORETUM   (United States)

^b Christopher B Burke Engineering Ltd   (United States)

Author keywords

Alpha scale species richness; Functional groups; Gamma scale richness; Guilds; Latesuccessional; Mid successional; Moisture gradient; Productivity richness gradient; Simpson's diversity and evenness; Temporal change; Temporal similarity; Vegetation structure

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; BURNING; C4 PLANT; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; DIVERSITY INDEX; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; FIRE BEHAVIOR; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; GRASS; GRAZING; MOISTURE CONTENT; PHYTOMASS; PRAIRIE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SPECIES EVENNESS; SPECIES RICHNESS; SUCCESSION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; WOODY PLANT;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; ENVIRONMENT; FIRE; PLANT; SEATBELT; TIME; UNITED STATES;

BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENT; FIRES; ILLINOIS; PLANTS; SEAT BELTS; TIME FACTORS;

CHICAGO; ILLINOIS; UNITED STATES;

POACEAE;

EID: 84875868181     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/12-0808.1     Document Type: Article

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