Seed dormancy in trees of climax tropical vegetation types

Tropical Ecology

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 17-28

  Baskin, Carol C ^a   Baskin, Jerry M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climax tropical forest trees; Climax tropical forest vegetation; Nondormancy of seeds; Seed dormancy; Seed germination

Indexed keywords

CLIMAX; HABITAT TYPE; SEED DORMANCY; TREE; TROPICAL FOREST;

EID: 33645047681     PISSN: 05643295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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