Environmental factors and survival strategies of annual plant species in the Negev Desert, Israel

Plant Species Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 113-125

  Gutterman, Y ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Aerial seed banks; Desert annuals; Dispersal strategy; Germination strategy; Phenotypic germination plasticity; Seed predation; Soil seed banks

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033788559     PISSN: 0913557X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1442-1984.2000.00032.x     Document Type: Article

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