Simply the best: The transition of savanna saplings to trees

Oikos

Volumn 120, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1448-1451

  Wakeling, Julia L ^a   Staver, A Carla ^b   Bond, William J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; DICOTYLEDON; DISTURBANCE; FIRE; GROWTH RATE; HERBIVORY; POPULATION BOTTLENECK; RAINFALL; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SAPLING; SAVANNA; VEGETATION COVER;

HLUHLUWE-UMFOLOZI PARK; KWAZULU-NATAL; SOUTH AFRICA;

ACACIA;

EID: 80053053846     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2011.19957.x     Document Type: Article

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