Soil seed banks and the potential restoration of forested wetlands after farming

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1025-1034

  Middleton, Beth A ^a,b  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL WETLANDS RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Baldcypress swamp; Flood pulsing; Regeneration dynamics; Seed dispersal; Seed longevity; Self design theory; Taxodium distichum; Weed ecology

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; DISPERSAL; LAND USE CHANGE; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SEED BANK; SWAMP FOREST; WETLAND;

ARKANSAS; CACHE VALLEY; ILLINOIS; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

CEPHALANTHUS; CEPHALANTHUS OCCIDENTALIS; HETERANTHERA; HETERANTHERA DUBIA; HOTTONIA; HOTTONIA INFLATA; LEMNA; LEMNA MINOR; LEMNA TRISULCA; NYSSA; NYSSA AQUATICA; NYSSACEAE; TAXODIUM; TAXODIUM DISTICHUM; WOLFFIA; WOLFFIA COLUMBIANA;

EID: 0346905500     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2003.00866.x     Document Type: Article

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