Soil,Vegetation, and Seed Bank of a Sonoran Desert Ecosystem Along an Exotic Plant (Pennisetum ciliare) Treatment Gradient

Environmental Management

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 946-957

  Abella, Scott R ^a   Chiquoine, Lindsay P ^b   Backer, Dana M ^a  

^a NATIONAL PARK SERVICE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Buffelgrass; Ecological condition; Native species; Recovery; Saguaro National Park; Treatment effectiveness

Indexed keywords

BUFFELGRASS; ECOLOGICAL CONDITIONS; NATIONAL PARKS; NATIVE SPECIES; TREATMENT EFFECTIVENESS;

ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; RECOVERY; SOILS; VEGETATION;

SEED;

HERBICIDE;

DESERT SOIL; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; GRADIENT ANALYSIS; GRASS; HERBICIDE; INVASIVE SPECIES; NATIVE SPECIES; SEED BANK; VEGETATION COVER;

ARTICLE; DESERT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; EXOTIC SPECIES; NATIVE SPECIES; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; PENNISETUM; PENNISETUM CILIARE; PLANT COMMUNITY; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL PROPERTY; SOIL SEED BANK; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

ARIZONA; SAGUARO NATIONAL PARK; SONORAN DESERT; UNITED STATES;

CARNEGIEA GIGANTEA; PENNISETUM CILIARE;

ARIZONA; DESERT CLIMATE; ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION; HERBICIDES; INTRODUCED SPECIES; PENNISETUM; SEEDS; SOIL;

EID: 84885470579     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-013-0104-y     Document Type: Article

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