Potential of indigenous multistrata agroforests for maintaining native floristic diversity in the south-eastern Rift Valley escarpment, Ethiopia

Agroforestry Systems

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 9-28

  Negash, Mesele ^a   Yirdaw, Eshetu ^a   Luukkanen, Olavi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Enset; Fruit trees; Gedeo; Native species

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AGROFORESTRY; ALTITUDINAL ZONATION; ESCARPMENT; FLORISTICS; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FRUIT; HERB; NATIVE SPECIES; RED LIST; SOIL FERTILITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; WOODY PLANT;

ETHIOPIA; KENYA; RIFT VALLEY;

CORDIA; CORDIA AFRICANA; ENSETE VENTRICOSUM; HEDERA; MILLETTIA; MILLETTIA FERRUGINEA; PRUNUS AFRICANA; PYGEUM; RHUS;

EID: 84861227782     PISSN: 01674366     EISSN: 15729680     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10457-011-9408-1     Document Type: Article

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