Summer irrigation, grazing and seed addition differentially influence community composition in an invaded serpentine grassland

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 122-130

  Funk, Jennifer L ^a   Hoffacker, Madison K ^a   Matzek, Virginia ^b  

^a CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Annuals; California; Herbivory; Mediterranean; Nitrogen; Phenology; Seed bank

Indexed keywords

BIOTIC FACTOR; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; GERMINATION; GRASSLAND; GRAZING; HERBIVORY; IRRIGATION; NITROGEN; PHENOLOGY; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SEED BANK; SEED DISPERSAL;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

POACEAE;

EID: 84924606423     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/rec.12162     Document Type: Article

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