The size and diversity of the soil seed banks and the light requirements of the species in sunny and shady natural communities of the Białowieża Primeval Forest

Plant Ecology

Volumn 136, Issue 1, 1998, Pages

  Jankowska Błaszczuk, Małgorzata ^a   Kwiatkowska, Anna J ^b   Panufnik, Dorota ^b   Tanner, Edmund ^c  

^a JAN KOCHANOWSKI UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bia owie a primeval forest; Light requirements of species; Method of seedlings' emergence; Potentillo albae Quercetum; Soil seed bank; Tilio carpinetum

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000273259     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009750201803     Document Type: Article

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