Agropyron cristatum


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Noun1.Agropyron cristatum - Eurasian grass grown in United States great plains area for forage and erosion controlAgropyron cristatum - Eurasian grass grown in United States great plains area for forage and erosion control
crested wheat grass, crested wheatgrass, fairway crested wheat grass
wheatgrass, wheat-grass - a grass of the genus Agropyron
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are retired agricultural fields planted with non-native crested wheatgrass (Agropyron cristatum) to prevent soil erosion in the late 1930's during or shortly after the great drought of the 20th Century.
Choosing Native Species for Restoring Crested Wheatgrass Fields on the Great Plains of Northeast Montana
Species seeded at Zap in 1976 were the perennial, cool-season grasses Russian wildrye (RWR; Psathyrostachys juncea) and crested wheatgrass (CWG; Agropyron cristatum) and spring wheat (Triticum aestivum).
Soil Quality and Water Redistribution Influences on Plant Production over Low Hillslopes on Reclaimed Mined Land
Other research has found success in seeding both pubescent and crested wheatgrass (Agropyron cristatum (L.) Gaertn.) for weed suppression (Blank et al.
Forage seeding in rangelands increases production and prevents weed invasion
Effects of fertilization on forage yield and quality of crested wheatgrass (Agropyron cristatum L.
Herbage Production, Nutritional Composition and Quality of Teosinte under Fe Fertilization
Demographic variation and biomass allocation of Agropyron cristatum grown on steppe and dune sites in the Hunshandake Desert, North China.
The influence of microhabitat on the population dynamics of four herbaceous species in a semiarid area of northeastern Brazil/A influencia dos microhabitats sobre a dinamica de populacoes de quatro especies herbaceas em uma area semiarida no nordeste do Brasil
& Schult.) 42.5 41.3 52.5 59.6 Barkworth Agropyron cristatum (L.) Gaertn.
Vegetation patterns associated with abiotic factors and human impacts at the Capitol Reef Field Station
Lehm., Agropyron cristatum (L.) Gaertn., Anemone cathayensis Kitag., and Elymus nutans Griseb.
The influences of canopy species and topographic variables on understory species diversity and composition in coniferous forests
Floristically these communities contain a number of Pontic and Pontic-Pannonian elements such as Agropyron cristatum subsp.
Validacion de los nombres de algunos sintaxones de la vegetacion de Crimea
Large-scale wildfires have converted much sagebrush steppe into grasslands dominated by invasive cheatgrass Bromus tectorum and planted exotic crested wheatgrass Agropyron cristatum. Topography was intermittent rugged mountain ranges and hills separated by broad xeric valleys.
Intraseasonal variation in survival and probable causes of mortality in greater sage-grouse Centrocercus urophasianus
(2007) for example, in a cloud forest to the southwest of the Bogota Sabana in Colombia, obtained 60% decomposition after 365 days of experimenting with an initial 10 g of Agropyron cristatum, just 10% less than what was obtained in this research in only 45 days.
Produccion, acumulacion y descomposicion de hojarasca en un bosque Colombiano Subandino y areas aledanas de restauracion
It has been recorded from the grasses Achnatherum coronatum (Thurb.) Barkworth, Agropyron sp., Agropyron cristatum (L.) Gaertn., Agrostis sp., Calamovilfa longifolia (Hook.) Scribn., Deschampsia flexuosa (L.) Trin., Festuca ovina L.
Planthopper (Hemiptera: fulgoroidea) diversity of weeping lovegrass (Eragrostis curvula), an introduced host of little-known, rarely collected native species

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