The role of revegetation for rehabilitation of sodic soils in semiarid subtropical forest, India

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 29-38

  Tripathi, K P ^a   Singh, Bajrang ^a  

^a CSIR NATIONAL BOTANICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Basal area; Biomass; Diversity indices; Forest community; Importance value index; Sodic soil; Soil amelioration; Species richness; Vegetation strata

Indexed keywords

FOREST; PLANT COMMUNITY; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; REVEGETATION; SODIC SOIL; SOIL PROPERTY; SOIL REMEDIATION;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; INDIA; LUCKNOW; SOUTH ASIA; UTTAR PRADESH; WORLD;

EID: 16344391467     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2005.00005.x     Document Type: Article

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