To burn or not to burn? Effect of management strategy on North American prairie vegetation for public urban areas in Germany.

North American prairie vegetation has been a role model for designing highly attractive plantings for German urban green spaces for the past decade. In combination with gravel mulch top layers on planting sites and non-selective maintenance techniques like mowing or burning, prairie plantings are co...

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Main Authors: Anja Schmithals, Norbert Kühn
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4186812?pdf=render