Demography and role of the seed bank in Mediterranean and desert populations of wild barley

Basic and Applied Ecology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 53-64

  Volis, Sergei ^a   Mendlinger, Samuel ^a   Ward, David ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Annual plant; Aridity gradient; Core and peripheral populations; Elasticity; Life cycle

Indexed keywords

HORDEUM; HORDEUM SPONTANEUM; HORDEUM VULGARE SUBSP. SPONTANEUM; HORDEUM VULGARE SUBSP. VULGARE;

EID: 1142281878     PISSN: 14391791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1078/1439-1791-00192     Document Type: Article

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