Seed banks in desert annuals: Implications for persistence and coexistence in variable environments

Ecology

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1427-1435

  Pake, Catherine E ^a   Venable, D Lawrence ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Desert annual plants; Dormancy; Field experiment; Life history traits; Predictive germination; Reproductive success; Seed banks; Sonoran Desert; Spatial variation; Species coexistence; Temporal variation

Indexed keywords

BET-HEDGING; COEXISTENCE; CREOSOTE FLAT; DESERT ANNUAL; DORMANCY; GERMINATION; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEED BANK;

USA, ARIZONA, SONORAN DESERT;

EID: 0030426470     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2265540     Document Type: Article

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