Diversity and disperfsal - Can the link be approached experimentally?

Folia Geobotanica

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 3-11

  Zobel, Martin ^a   Kalamees, Rein ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Diaspore addition; Seed bank; Species pool hypothesis; Species richness

Indexed keywords

DISPERSAL; DISTURBANCE; PLANT COMMUNITY; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SEED BANK; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES POOL;

EID: 15844415788     PISSN: 12119520     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02803040     Document Type: Article

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