Edaphic patchiness influences grassland regeneration from the soil seed-bank in mountain grasslands of central Argentina

Austral Ecology

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 205-212

  Funes, Guillermo ^a,b   Basconcelo, Sandra ^b   Díaz, Sandra ^a,b   Cabido, Marcelo ^a,b  

^a Inst Multidisciplinario Biol V   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CÓRDOBA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Community regeneration; Granite grasslands; Persistent seed banks; Spatial heterogeneity; Transient seed banks

Indexed keywords

EID: 0010650935     PISSN: 14429985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1442-9993.2001.01102.x     Document Type: Article

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