Seedbank characteristics of a Nebraska sandhills prairie

Journal of Range Management

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 55-62

  Pérez, Claudio J ^a   Waller, Steven S ^b   Moser, Lowell E ^b   Stubbendieck, James L ^b   Steuter, Allen A ^c  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES AGROPECUARIAS   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^c THE NATURE CONSERVANCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Germination percentage; Lambsquarters; Marestail; Sand dropseed; Sand lovegrass; Secondary succession

Indexed keywords

PLANT COMMUNITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEED BANK; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SUCCESSION;

NEBRASKA; SANDHILLS PRAIRIE; USA;

CAREX; CHENOPODIUM ALBUM; CYPERUS SCHWEINITZII; ERAGROSTIS TRICHODES; ERIOGONUM ANNUUM; EUPHORBIA; SPOROBOLUS CRYPTANDRUS;

EID: 2642662491     PISSN: 0022409X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4003564     Document Type: Article

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