Heat and smoke effects on the germination of seeds from soil seed banks across forest edges between subtropical rainforest and eucalypt forest at Lamington National Park, south-eastern Queensland, Australia

Australian Journal of Botany

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 227-237

  Tang, Y ^a,b   Boulter, S L ^b   Kitching, R L ^b  

^a KEY LABORATORY OF TROPICAL FOREST ECOLOGY   (China)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOREST EDGE; FOREST FIRE; GERMINATION; RAINFOREST; REGENERATION; SEED BANK; SMOKE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0037593217     PISSN: 00671924     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/BT02091     Document Type: Article

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