Responses of West African forest tree seedlings to irradiance and soil fertility

Functional Ecology

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 501-511

  Veenendaal, E M ^a,c   Swaine, M D ^a   Lecha, R T ^a   Walsh, M F ^a   Abebrese, I K ^b   Owusu Afriyie, K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b FORESTRY RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF GHANA   (Ghana)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOTSWANA   (Botswana)

Author keywords

Acid soils; Ghana; growth analysis; light response; regeneration; tropical rain forest

Indexed keywords

IRRADIANCE; SOIL FERTILITY;

GHANA;

ALBIZIA ZYGIA; BLIGHIA SAPIDA; CELTIS MILDBRAEDII; CHRYSOPHYLLUM PRUNIFORME; CYNOMETRA ANANTA; GUAREA CEDRATA; HERITIERA UTILIS; LOPHIRA ALATA; MANSONIA ALTISSIMA; MILICIA EXCELSA; PERICOPSIS ELATA; PTERYGOTA MACROCARPA; STROMBOSIA GLAUCESCENS; TERMINALIA IVORENSIS; TRIPLOCHITON SCLEROXYLON;

EID: 0030304892     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2389943     Document Type: Article

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