Seed bank and plant community composition, Mixed Prairie of Saskatchewan

Journal of Range Management

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 300-304

  Romo, J T ^a   Bai, Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Microbiotic crust; Microphytic crust; Northern Mixed Prairie; Range condition; Selaginella densa

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; MOSS; PLANT COMMUNITY; RANGELAND; SEED BANK; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; SASKATCHEWAN; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 15944368655     PISSN: 0022409X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2111/1551-5028(2004)057[0300:sbapcc]2.0.co;2     Document Type: Article

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