The facilitative effects by seeds and seedlings on emergence from the seed bank of a desert annual plant community

Ecoscience

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 106-111

  Lortie, Christopher J ^a   Turkington, Roy ^a  

^a SONOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Annuals; Erodium laciniatum; Erucaria pinnata; Facilitation; Focal species; Nurse plant; Stress

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DESERT; FACILITATION; PLANT COMMUNITY; SEED BANK; SEEDLING EMERGENCE;

ISRAEL; NEGEV DESERT;

ERODIUM; ERODIUM LACINIATUM; ERUCARIA PINNATA;

EID: 0036225656     PISSN: 11956860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/11956860.2002.11682696     Document Type: Article

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