Soil seed bank dynamics of fire-prone wooded grassland, woodland and dry forest ecosystems in Ethiopia

Nordic Journal of Botany

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 5-17

  Gashaw, Menassie ^a   Michelsen, Anders ^b   Jensen, M ^b   Friis, I ^b  

^a ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DENSITY; DRY FOREST; FIRE; GRASSLAND; REGENERATION; SEED BANK; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WOODLAND;

ETHIOPIA; GAMBELLA;

HYPARRHENIA; HYPARRHENIA CONFINIS;

EID: 0036926075     PISSN: 0107055X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1756-1051.2002.tb01614.x     Document Type: Article

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