Effects of invasive amur honeysuckle (lonicera maackii) and white-tailed deer (odocoileus virginianus) on survival of sugar maple seedlings in a Southwestern Ohio Forest

American Midland Naturalist

Volumn 174, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 65-73

  Loomis, Jessica D ^a   Matter, Stephen F ^a   Cameron, Guy N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; DECIDUOUS FOREST; DECIDUOUS TREE; DEER; DOMINANCE; FOREST CANOPY; HERB; INTRASPECIFIC INTERACTION; INVASIVE SPECIES; SEEDLING; SURVIVAL; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

OHIO; UNITED STATES;

ACER SACCHARUM; CERVIDAE; LONICERA; LONICERA MAACKII; ODOCOILEUS VIRGINIANUS;

EID: 84937130686     PISSN: 00030031     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1674/0003-0031-174.1.65     Document Type: Article

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