Restoration treatments enhance early establishment of native forbs in a degraded temperate grassy woodland

Australian Journal of Botany

Volumn 55, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 818-830

  Smallbone, Lisa T ^a   Prober, Suzanne M ^b   Lunt, Ian D ^a  

^a CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GERMINATION; GRASS; NATIVE SPECIES; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SEEDLING; SWARD; UNDERSTORY; WOODLAND;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; NEW SOUTH WALES;

BULBINE BULBOSA; EUCALYPTUS; EUCALYPTUS ALBENS; MICROSERIS LANCEOLATA; POACEAE; THEMEDA; THEMEDA AUSTRALIS;

EID: 37149034710     PISSN: 00671924     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/BT07106     Document Type: Article

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