Restoring the sagebrush component in crested wheatgrass-dominated communities

Rangeland Ecology and Management

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 472-478

  Davies, Kirk W ^a   Boyd, Chad S ^a   Nafus, Aleta M ^b  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agropyron cristatum; Artemisia tridentata; Establishment; Restoration; Seedings

Indexed keywords

GLYPHOSATE; GRASS; HABITAT RESTORATION; INTRODUCED SPECIES; PLANT COMMUNITY; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; SHRUB; WEED CONTROL; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

UNITED STATES; WYOMING;

AGROPYRON; AGROPYRON CRISTATUM; AGROPYRON DESERTORUM; ARTEMISIA; ARTEMISIA TRIDENTATA; ARTEMISIA TRIDENTATA WYOMINGENSIS; COLEOPTERA;

EID: 84880788946     PISSN: 15507424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2111/REM-D-12-00145.1     Document Type: Article

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