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Interactions of Woody and Herbaceous Vegetation in a Southern African Savanna
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The community on a more sandy soil was a broad-leaf woody savanna; the other was a more open microphyllous Acacia community. In the broad-leaf community the effect of the herbaceous vegetation on the woody plants is negligible. In the Acacia community with 7 times more herbaceous biomass, mature woody-plant growth was reduced by competition from the grass-dominated herb layer particularly in the wetter year. Grasses take up topsoil (0-30 cm) water sufficiently rapidly to reduce drainage into the subsoil (30-130 cm), and they also take up subsoil water directly, thus lowering the amount of subsoil water available to woody plants. -from Authors
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- Knoop, W. T., & Walker, B. H.
- Venue
- The Journal of Ecology
- Publisher
- JSTOR
- Published
- 1985-03
- Volume
- 73
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 235
- ISSN
- 0022-0477 (ISSN-L)
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- W2326522762
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- 523
- References
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- 6.92
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- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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