The relative sensitivity of two bunchgrass species to fire

International Journal of Wildland Fire

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1995, Pages 127-134

  Robberecht, Ronald ^a   Defossé, Guillermo E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^b Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Agropyron spicatum; Bunchgrasses; Festuca idahoensis; Fire; Productivity; Pseudoroegneria spicata

Indexed keywords

EID: 84971050682     PISSN: 10498001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/WF9950127     Document Type: Article

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