Size traits and site conditions determine changes in seed bank structure caused by grazing exclusion in semiarid annual plant communities

Ecography

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 11-20

  Osem, Yagil ^a   Perevolotsky, Avi ^b   Kigel, Jaime ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXCLUSION EXPERIMENT; PLANT COMMUNITY; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; SEED BANK; SEED SIZE; SITE EFFECT;

ASIA; EURASIA; ISRAEL; MIDDLE EAST;

OVIS ARIES;

EID: 33645024064     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2006.0906-7590.04283.x     Document Type: Article

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