Resprouters vs reseeders in South African forest trees; a model based on forest canopy height

Functional Ecology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 101-105

  Kruger, L M ^a   Midgley, J J ^a   Cowling, R M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Forest dynamics; persistence; recruitment; regeneration

Indexed keywords

CANOPY HEIGHT; FOREST DYNAMICS; RECRUITMENT; SEEDLING; SPROUTING;

SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 0030618960     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2435.1997.00064.x     Document Type: Article

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