The role of water depth and soil temperature in determining initial composition of prairie wetland coenoclines

Plant Ecology

Volumn 138, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 203-216

  Seabloom, Eric W ^a,b   Van Der Valk, Arnold G ^a   Moloney, Kirk A ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ECOLOGICAL ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental gradient; Germination; Regeneration niche; Seed bank; Zonation

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; RECRUITMENT; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; SOIL TEMPERATURE; WATER LEVEL; WETLAND;

EID: 0031695810     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009711919757     Document Type: Article

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