Long-term redevelopment of resource islands in shrublands of the great basin, usa

Ecosphere

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Morris, Lesley R ^a   Monaco, Thomas A ^a   Blank, Robert ^b   Sheley, Roger L ^b  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Artemisia nova; Artemisia tridentata; Coppice dunes; Ex arable fields; Islands of fertility; Land use legacies; Old fields; Soil heterogeneity.

Indexed keywords

EID: 84900032136     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21508925     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/ES12-00130.1     Document Type: Article

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