Fire and flood: Soil-stored seed bank and germination ecology in the endangered Carrington Falls Grevillea (Grevillea rivularis, Proteaceae)

Austral Ecology

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 128-136

  Pickup, Melinda ^a,c   Mcdougall, Keith L ^b   Whelan, Robert J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service   (Australia)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fire; Germination; Grevillea; Heat; Proteaceae; Scarification; Seed dormancy; Threatened species

Indexed keywords

DISTURBANCE; DORMANCY; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FIRE; FLOOD; GERMINATION; SEED BANK;

AUSTRALIA;

GREVILLEA; GREVILLEA RIVULARIS; PROTEACEAE; RIPARIA;

EID: 0043207536     PISSN: 14429985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1442-9993.2003.01255.x     Document Type: Article

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