Alternative fire resistance strategies in savanna trees

Oecologia

Volumn 110, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 576-583

  Gignoux, Jacques ^a   Clobert, Jean ^a   Menaut, Jean Claude ^a  

^a ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

Author keywords

Crosspteryx febrifuga; Fire temperature; Humid savanna; Piliostigma thonningii; Recruitment

Indexed keywords

CROSSOPTERYX; CROSSOPTERYX FEBRIFUGA; PILIOSTIGMA; PILIOSTIGMA THONNINGII; CAESALPINIACEAE; RUBIACEAE;

FIRE RESISTANCE; SAVANNA TREE; SURVIVAL;

EID: 0030613825     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004420050198     Document Type: Article

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