Floristic, structural and seed bank diversity of a dry Afromontane forest at Mafai, central Tanzania

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 241-263

  Lyaruu, Herbert V ^a   Eliapenda, Shadrack ^a,b   Backéus, Ingvar ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DAR ES SALAAM   (Tanzania)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Dry forest; Population structure; Regeneration

Indexed keywords

FOREST ECOSYSTEM; HABITAT CONSERVATION; SEED BANK; SPECIES INVENTORY; VASCULAR PLANT; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

TANZANIA;

EID: 0034013455     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008954526896     Document Type: Article

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