The small-scale spatiotemporal pattern of a seed bank in the Negev Desert, Israel

Ecoscience

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 407-413

  Lortie, Christopher J ^a   Turkington, Roy ^a  

^a SONOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Annual plants; Associations; Desert; Geostatistics; Seed bank; Seed size; Semivariograms; Spatial pattern; Stress; Temporal

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL PLANT; PLANT COMMUNITY; SEED BANK; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ISRAEL; NEGEV DESERT;

EID: 0036385297     PISSN: 11956860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/11956860.2002.11682728     Document Type: Article

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