Competition affects survival and growth of buffel grass seedlings - Is buffel grass a coloniser or an invader?

Tropical Grasslands

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 176-181

  McIvor, John G ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

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