Soil seed bank and community dynamics in an annual-dominated Mediterranean salt-marsh

Journal of Vegetation Science

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 371-378

  Maranon T ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE RECURSOS NATURALES Y AGROBIOLOGÍA DE SEVILLA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Guadalquivir delta; Mediterranean grassland; Salinity; Seed bank; Transplantation experiment

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; GRASSLAND; SALTMARSH; SEED BANK;

ANDALUCIA; GUADALQUIVIR DELTA; SPAIN;

TRISETARIA PANICEA;

EID: 0345698923     PISSN: 11009233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3237101     Document Type: Article

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