Using strategically applied grazing to manage invasive alien plants in novel grasslands

Ecological Processes

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-11

  Firn, Jennifer ^a   Price, Jodi N ^b   Whalley, Ralph D B ^c  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; RESTORATION;

CONTROL STRATEGIES; DISTURBANCE REGIME; EDAPHIC CONDITIONS; EXPERIMENTS AND CASE STUDIES; INVASIVE SPECIES MANAGEMENT; LIVESTOCK PRODUCTION; MANAGEMENT PRACTICES; SPECIES COMPOSITION;

AGRICULTURE;

ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; GRASSLAND; GRAZING PRESSURE; INVASIVE SPECIES; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; PLANT COMMUNITY; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; UNGULATE;

AUSTRALIA;

INTRACISTERNAL A-PARTICLES; UNGULATA;

EID: 84921977570     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21921709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2192-1709-2-26     Document Type: Review

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