Soil-dependent fire frequency: A new hypothesis for the distribution of prairies and oak woodlands/savannas in North Central and East Texas

SIDA, Contributions to Botany

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 1139-1153

  Diggs Jr , George M ^a,b   Schulze, Peter C ^a  

^a AUSTIN COLLEGE   (United States)

^b BOTANICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF TEXAS   (United States)

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