New evidence for persistent or transient seed banks in three Sonoran Desert cacti

Southwestern Naturalist

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 482-487

  Bowers, Janice E ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CACTACEAE; CARNEGIEA; CARNEGIEA GIGANTEA; FEROCACTUS; FEROCACTUS WISLIZENI; MAMMILLARIA; MAMMILLARIA GRAHAMII;

EID: 30844446287     PISSN: 00384909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1894/0038-4909(2005)050[0482:NEFPOT]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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