Sprouting ability across diverse disturbances and vegetation types worldwide

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 310-320

  Vesk, Peter A ^a,b   Westoby, Mark ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Disturbance response; Plant functional types; Resprouting; Vegetation dynamics

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION; DISTURBANCE; FIRE; REGENERATION; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 1842430152     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0022-0477.2004.00871.x     Document Type: Article

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