Seed banks and seedling establishment on an experimental productivity gradient

Oikos

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 381-391

  Kitajima, Kaoru ^a,b   Tilman, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIRE; GRASSLAND; NITROGEN FERTILIZATION; PRODUCTIVITY GRADIENT; SEED BANK; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT;

EID: 0030304352     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3546210     Document Type: Article

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