Relationships among the seed rain, seed bank and vegetation of a Hawaiian forest

Journal of Vegetation Science

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 103-112

  Drake, Donald R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Alien species; Island; Metrosideros polymorpha; Oceania; Seed dispersal; Seed dynamics; Seed ecology; Tropical forest

Indexed keywords

FOREST VEGETATION; SEED BANK; SEED RAIN; VEGETATION;

HAWAII; USA;

METROSIDEROS POLYMORPHA;

EID: 0031941895     PISSN: 11009233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3237228     Document Type: Article

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