Post-fire succession on savanna habitats in the Okavango Delta wetland, Botswana

Journal of Tropical Ecology

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 705-713

  Heinl, Michael ^a,b   Sliva, Jan ^b   Murray Hudson, Michael ^c   Tacheba, Budzanani ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOTSWANA   (Botswana)

Author keywords

Fire; Fire ecology; Fire history; Fire regime; Richness; Southern Africa; Structure; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); FIRE HISTORY; SAVANNA; SPECIES RICHNESS; SUCCESSION; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; WETLAND;

AFRICA; BOTSWANA; NGAMILAND; OKAVANGO DELTA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

UROCHLOA MOSAMBICENSIS;

EID: 35648948417     PISSN: 02664674     EISSN: 14697831     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0266467407004452     Document Type: Article

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