Grassland restoration after afforestation: No direction home?

Austral Ecology

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 357-366

  Zaloumis, Nicholas P ^a   Bond, William J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

C4 grassland; Forb; Persistence; Pine afforestation; Resprouters; Restoration

Indexed keywords

AFFORESTATION; C4 PLANT; COASTAL ZONE; CONIFEROUS FOREST; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DOMINANCE; FOREST FIRE; GRASSLAND; HABITAT RESTORATION; HERB; PERSISTENCE; RESPROUTING; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 79957624369     PISSN: 14429985     EISSN: 14429993     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9993.2010.02158.x     Document Type: Article

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