Temporal vegetation dynamics and recolonization mechanisms on different-sized soil disturbances in tallgrass prairie

American Journal of Botany

Volumn 88, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 1634-1642

  Rogers, William E ^a,b   Hartnett, David C ^b  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Clonal propagation; Community assembly dynamics; Functional types; Pocket gopher mounds; Regeneration strategies; Seed rain recruitment; Soil seed bank; Succession

Indexed keywords

EID: 0345569057     PISSN: 00029122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3558408     Document Type: Article

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