Bamboo, fire and flood: Consequences of disturbance for the vegetative growth of a clumping, clonal plant

Plant Ecology

Volumn 208, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 319-332

  Franklin, Donald C ^a   Prior, Lynda D ^a,b   Hogarth, Nicholas J ^a   McMahon, Clive R ^a  

^a CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Generalised linear mixed models; Genets; Intraclonal competition; Northern Australia; Ramet demography; Size dependent survival

Indexed keywords

BASAL AREA; CLONAL ORGANISM; DEMOGRAPHIC TREND; DISTURBANCE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FLOODING; GENET; GRASS; GROWTH RATE; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); RIPARIAN VEGETATION; SEXUAL REPRODUCTION; SURVIVAL; WILDFIRE;

AUSTRALIA;

BAMBUSA; BAMBUSA ARNHEMICA;

EID: 77951975537     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-009-9709-x     Document Type: Article

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