Soil seed bank and regeneration potential on eroded hill slopes in the Kondoa Irangi Hills, central Tanzania

Applied Vegetation Science

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 209-214

  Lyaruu, H V M ^a,b   Backeus I ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DAR ES SALAAM   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

Degradation; Dry season; Seedling emergence; Sorensen's similarity index; Succession; Wet season

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033393959     PISSN: 14022001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1478984     Document Type: Article

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