Site amelioration for direct seeding of Caladenia tentaculata improves seedling recruitment and survival in natural habitat

Lankesteriana

Volumn 7, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 430-432

  Wright, Magali ^a   French, Garry ^b   Cross, Rob ^c   Cousens, Roger ^a   Andrusiak, Sascha ^a   McLean, Cassandra B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b Parks Victoria   (Australia)

^c ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS VICTORIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Caladenia; In situ seed germination; Site amelioration

Indexed keywords

EID: 68949126085     PISSN: 14093871     EISSN: 22152067     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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