Native and exotic plant cover vary inversely along a climate gradient 11 years following stand-replacing wildfire in a dry coniferous forest, Oregon, USA

Global Change Biology

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 666-675

  Dodson, Erich K ^a   Root, Heather T ^b  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WEBER STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cheatgrass; Climate change type drought; Exotic invasion; Medusahead; Ponderosa pine forest; State change

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CONIFEROUS FOREST; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; GRASS; PLANT; VEGETATION COVER; WILDFIRE;

OREGON; UNITED STATES;

BROMUS TECTORUM; POACEAE; TAENIATHERUM;

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; FIRE; FOREST; INTRODUCED SPECIES; PLANT; UNITED STATES;

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; FIRES; FORESTS; INTRODUCED SPECIES; OREGON; PLANTS;

EID: 84922584182     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12775     Document Type: Article

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