Comparative assessment of soil properties after bamboo flowering and death in a tropical forest of Indo-Burma hot spot

Ambio

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 118-120

  Rai, Prabhat Kumar ^a  

^a MIZORAM UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; BAMBOO; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FLOWERING; MORTALITY; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL PROPERTY; TROPICAL FOREST;

ARTICLE; BAMBUSA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; INDIA; MYANMAR; PHYSIOLOGY; SOIL; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

BAMBUSA; INDIA; MYANMAR; SOIL; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

ASIA; EURASIA; MYANMAR; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

EID: 64849084390     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1579/0044-7447-38.2.118     Document Type: Article

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19. The author is thankful to Dean, Mizoram University, for providing the necessary facilities and Professor A. N. Rai, Vice Chancellor, Mizoram University for encouragement and support.