“Cerrado” restoration by direct seeding: field establishment and initial growth of 75 trees, shrubs and grass species

Revista Brasileira de Botanica

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 681-693

  Pellizzaro, Keiko Fueta ^a,b   Cordeiro, Alba O O ^a   Alves, Monique ^a   Motta, Camila P ^a   Rezende, Gustavo M ^a   Silva, Raissa R P ^a   Ribeiro, José Felipe ^c   Sampaio, Alexandre B ^d   Vieira, Daniel L M ^a,e   Schmidt, Isabel B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO CHICO MENDES DE CONSERVAÇÃO DA BIODIVERSIDADE   (Brazil)

^c EMBRAPA CERRADOS   (Brazil)

^d Centro Nacional de Pesquisa e Conservação da Biodiversidade do Cerrado e Caatinga   (Brazil)

^e EMBRAPA RECURSOS GENÉTICOS E BIOTECNOLOGIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Direct sowing; Ecological restoration; Grassland restoration; Herbaceous layer; Neotropical savanna

Indexed keywords

EID: 85029801191     PISSN: 01008404     EISSN: 18069959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40415-017-0371-6     Document Type: Article

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