Management of Lantana, an invasive alien weed, in forest ecosystems of India

Current Science

Volumn 97, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1421-1429

  Love, Amit ^a   Babu, Suresh ^a   Babu, C R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

Cut rootstock method; Ecological restoration; Lantana; Soil seed bank; Weeding

Indexed keywords

AVES; LANTANA;

EID: 72249089015     PISSN: 00113891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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