Link of vegetation with soil at a few metre-scale: Herbaceous floristic composition and infiltrability in a Sudanian fallow-land

Acta Oecologica

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 215-226

  Fournier, Anne ^a,c   Planchon, Olivier ^b  

^a Orstom   (Burkina Faso)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (Senegal)

^c IRD ERMES   (France)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Herbaceous vegetation; Redundancy; Savanna; Small scale heterogeneity; Soil inflitrability

Indexed keywords

FALLOW; FLORISTICS; INFILTRATION; SOIL-VEGETATION INTERACTION;

SUDAN;

EID: 0032078494     PISSN: 1146609X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1146-609X(98)80026-X     Document Type: Article

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