Annual and seasonal patterns of litter-fall of hard beech (nothofagus truncata) and silver beech (nothofagus menziesil) in relation to reproduction

New Zealand Journal of Botany

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 453-464

  Alley, J C ^a   Fitzgerald, B M ^b   Berben, P H ^a   Haslett, S J ^c  

^a LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^b Ecological Research Associates of New Zealand Inc   (New Zealand)

^c MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Flowering; Hard beech; Leaf fall; Litter fall; Nothofagus menziesii; Nothofagus truncata; Orongorongo Valley; Seed; Silver beech

Indexed keywords

NEW ZEALAND; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT LITTER; POPULATION STRUCTURE; REPRODUCTIVE PROCEDURES; SEASONALITY; SEED DEVELOPMENT;

LITTERFALL; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 0032435156     PISSN: 0028825X     EISSN: 11758643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0028825X.1998.9512583     Document Type: Article

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