Threats to the Namaqualand flowers: Outcompeted by grass or exterminated by grazing?

South African Journal of Science

Volumn 92, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 237-242

  Steinschen, A K ^a,b   Gorne A ^a,b   Milton, S J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; FORB ABUNDANCE; GRAZING; INVASIVE GRASS;

SOUTH AFRICA, CAPE PROVINCE, NAMAQUALAND;

BROMUS PECTINATUS; POACEAE; STIPA CAPENSIS;

EID: 0029660283     PISSN: 00382353     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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