Soil temperatures after the passage of a fire: Do they influence the germination of buried seeds?

Austral Ecology

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 106-109

  Auld, Tony D ^a   Bradstock, Ross A ^a  

^a NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fire season; Legumes; Seed dormancy; Seedbanks

Indexed keywords

EID: 17244381160     PISSN: 14429985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9993.1996.tb00589.x     Document Type: Article

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