Genetic bottlenecks in agroforestry systems: Results of tree nursery surveys in East Africa

Agroforestry Systems

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 149-155

  Lengkeek, Ard G ^a,b   Jaenicke, Hannah ^a,c   Dawson, Ian K ^a  

^a WORLD AGROFORESTRY CENTRE ICRAF   (Kenya)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c Park House   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Genetic diversity; Tree seed sources

Indexed keywords

AGROFORESTRY; GENETIC VARIATION;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WORLD;

EID: 21144439216     PISSN: 01674366     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10457-004-9155-7     Document Type: Article

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