Soil seed banks in plantations and adjacent natural dry Afromontane forests of central and southern Ethiopia

Tropical Ecology

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 229-242

  Senbeta, Feyera ^a   Teketay, Demel ^b  

^a Wondo Genet College of Forestry   (Ethiopia)

^b ETHIOPIAN INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

Density of seeds; Horizontal and vertical distribution; Menagesha Suba; Munessa Shashemene; Similarity of species composition

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DRY FOREST; PLANTATION; SEED BANK; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ETHIOPIA;

CYPERACEAE; POACEAE;

EID: 0038739209     PISSN: 05643295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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