The effect of fire on the germination of Acacia mangium in a plantation in South Sumatra, Indonesia

Commonwealth Forestry Review

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 128-131

  Saharjo, Bambang Hero ^a,b   Watanabe, Hiroyuki ^b  

^a BOGOR AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Indonesia)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acacia mangium; Germination; Heat effect; Seed lethal temperature

Indexed keywords

EID: 0013396475     PISSN: 00103381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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