Sprouting success of shrubs after fire: Height-dependent relationships for different strategies

Oecologia

Volumn 115, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 64-72

  Hodgkinson, Ken C ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fire; Height dependency; Shrubs; Sprouting; Survival strategies

Indexed keywords

FIRE; HEIGHT DEPENDENCE; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; RESPROUTING; SHRUB;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0031865113     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004420050492     Document Type: Article

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