Role of legumes in release of successionally arrested grasslands in the central hills of Sri Lanka

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 36-43

  Ashton, P M S ^a   Samarasinghe, S J ^b   Gunatilleke, I A U N ^b   Gunatilleke, C V S ^b  

^a Yale School of the Environment   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PERADENIYA   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALAPOGONIUM; CALAPOGONIUM MUCUNOIDES; CENTROSEMA PUBESCENS; CYMBOPOGON; CYMBOPOGON NARDUS; DESMODIUM ADSCENDENS; NARDUS; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; PANICUM MAXIMUM; PUERARIA PHASEOLOIDES; DESMODIUM OVALIFOLIUM; FABACEAE; HYSTRIX; POACEAE;

GRASSLAND; HERBIVORY; LEGUME; PLANT ESTABLISHMENT; REFORESTATION; SOIL FERTILITY;

SRI LANKA;

EID: 0031430828     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1526-100X.1997.09704.x     Document Type: Article

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