Soil seed banks in church forests of northern Ethiopia: Implications for the conservation of woody plants

Flora: Morphology, Distribution, Functional Ecology of Plants

Volumn 201, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 32-43

  Wassie, Alemayehu ^a   Teketay, Demel ^b  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NONE   (Ghana)

Author keywords

Dry Afromontane forests; Regeneration; Seed dormancy and germination; Seedling banks; Soil seed density; Species composition

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GERMINATION; PLANT COMMUNITY; PROTECTED AREA; SEED BANK; SEED DORMANCY;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; ETHIOPIA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 28944441686     PISSN: 03672530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.flora.2005.04.002     Document Type: Article

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