Fates of weed seeds in soil: A seeded core method of study

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1107-1113

  Teo Sherrell, C P A ^a,b   Mortensen, D A ^a   Keaton, M E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b NONE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

buried seeds; population dynamics; seed bank; seed mortality; seedling emergence

Indexed keywords

GERMINATION; SEED; WEED;

EID: 0030302005     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2404690     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. Archibold, O.W. (1981) Buried viable propagules in native prairie and adjacent agricultural sites in central Saskatchewan. Canadian Journal of Botany, 59, 701-706.
2. Darlington, H.T. (1922) Dr W.J. Beal's seed-viability experiment. American Journal of Botany, 9, 266-269.
3. Dessaint, F., Chadoeuf, R. & Barralis, G. (1991) Spatial pattern analysis of weed seeds in the cultivated soil seed bank. Journal of Applied Ecology, 28, 721-730.
4. Fellows, G.M. (1990) Seed biology, economic impact, and interference characteristics of shattercane (Sorghum bicolor). PhD dissertation, University of Nebraska at Lincoln.
5. Fenner, M. (1985) Seed Ecology. Chapman and Hall. London.
6. Gross, K. L. (1990) A comparison of methods for estimating seed numbers in the soil. Journal of Ecology, 78, 1079-1093.
7. Gross, K.L. & Renner, K.A (1989) A new method for estimating seed numbers in soil. Weed Science, 37, 836-839.
8. Kalisz, S. (1991) Experimental determination of seed bank age structure in the winter annual Collinsia verna. Ecology, 72, 575-585.
9. Kellman, M.C. (1974) The viable weed seed content of some tropical agricultural soils. Journal of Applied Ecology, 11, 669-677.
10. Kellman, M.C (1978) Microdistribution of viable weed seed in two tropical soils. Journal of Biogeography, 5, 291-300.
11. Kropac, Z. (1966) Estimation of weed seeds in arable soil. Pedobiologia, 6, 105-128.
12. McIntyre, S. (1985) Seed reserves in temperate Australian rice fields following pasture rotation and continuous cropping. Journal of Applied Ecology, 22, 875-884
13. National Cooperative Soil Survey (1980) Soil Survey of Lancaster County, Nebraska. National Cooperative Soil Survey (USA). Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.
14. Parker, V.T., Simpson, R.L. & Leck, M.A. (1989) Pattern and process in the dynamics of seed banks. Ecology of Soil Seed Banks (eds M. A Leck, V. T. Parker & R. L. Simpson), pp. 367-384. Academic Press Inc., San Diego.
15. Reichman, O.J. (1984) Spatial and temporal variation of seed distributions in Sonoran Desert soils. Journal of Biogeography, 11, 1-11.
16. Roberts, H.A. (1981) Seed banks in soils. Advances in Applied Biology, 6, 1-55.
17. Roberts, H.A. & Feast, P.M (1972) Fate of seeds of some annual weeds in different depths of cultivated and undisturbed soil. Weed Research, 12, 316-324
18. Sarukhan, J. (1974) Studies on plant demography: Ranunculus repens, L., R. bulbosus, L. & R. acris L. II. Reproductive strategies and seed population dynamics. Journal of Ecology, 62, 151-177.
19. Tetrazolium Testing Committee of the Association of Official Seed Analysts (1970) Tetrazolium Testing Handbook for Agricultural Seeds (ed. D F. Grabe). The Association of Official Seed Analysts, Corvallis, Oregon.
20. Thompson, K. (1986) Small-scale heterogeneity in the seed bank of an acidic grassland. Journal of Ecology, 74, 733-738.
21. Thompson, K. & Grime, J.P. (1979) Seasonal variation in the seed banks of herbaceous species in ten contrasting habitats. Journal of Ecology, 67, 893-921.
22. Toole, E.H. & Brown, E (1946) Final results of the Duvel buried seed experiment. Journal of Agricultural Research (Washington), 72, 201-209.
23. van der Valk, A.G. & Davis, C.B. (1978) The role of seed banks in the vegetation dynamics of prairie glacial marshes. Ecology, 59, 322-335.
24. Whipple, S.A. (1977) The relationship of buried, germinating seeds to vegetation in an old-growth Colorado subalpine forest. Canadian Journal of Botany, 56, 1505-1509.