Use of multiple criteria in an ecological assessment of a prairie restoration chronosequence

Applied Vegetation Science

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 63-73

  Hansen, Michael J ^a   Gibson, David J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

AIC; Ecological fidelity; FQI; Mean C; Nachusa Grasslands; Net primary productivity; Non metric multidimensional scaling; Soil

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890312598     PISSN: 14022001     EISSN: 1654109X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/avsc.12051     Document Type: Article

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