Optimizing seed mixture diversity and seeding rates for grassland restoration

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 396-404

  Barr, Stephanie ^a   Jonas, Jayne L ^b   Paschke, Mark W ^b  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

multifactor optimization; plant diversity; response surface regression; seed mix diversity

Indexed keywords

GRASSLAND; NATIVE SPECIES; OPTIMIZATION; PLANT COMMUNITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; REVEGETATION; SEEDING; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

COLORADO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84994829863     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/rec.12445     Document Type: Article

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