Effects of prescribed burning, mechanical and chemical treatments to curtail rhododendron dominance and reduce wildfire fuel loads
Rosebay rhododendron (Rhododendron maximum L.) is an ericaceous shrub commonly found in riparian areas of the Appalachian Mountains. After more than a century of fire exclusion in the U.S., the distribution of R. maximum and its dominance of forest understories have increased. Rhododendron expansi...
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Virginia Tech
2014
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/31512 http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-03202007-193709/ |