The effects of drought and fire on seed and seedling dynamics in a tropical seasonal forest in Thailand

Plant Ecology

Volumn 161, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 41-57

  Marod, Dokrak ^a   Kutintara, Utis ^a   Tanaka, Hiroshi ^b   Nakashizuka, Tohru ^c  

^a KASETSART UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b FORESTRY AND FOREST PRODUCTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Drought; Fire; Mixed deciduous forest; Regeneration strategies; Seed bank; Seedling bank; Sprouting; Tropical dry forest

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT; FIRE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEED PRODUCTION; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; TROPICAL FOREST;

THAILAND;

BERRYA AMMONILLA; DIPTEROCARPUS; PTEROCARPUS; PTEROCARPUS MACROCARPUS; SHOREA;

EID: 0036394627     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1020372401313     Document Type: Article

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