Flooding, soil seed bank dynamics and vegetation resilience of a hydrologically variable desert floodplain

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 206-223

  Capon, Samantha J ^a,b,d   Brock, Margaret A ^b,c  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b EWATER COOPERATIVE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^d MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Arid zone; Australia; Drought; Germination; Wetland plants

Indexed keywords

FLOODING; FLOODPLAIN; SEED BANK; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

LILIOPSIDA; POACEAE;

EID: 33645068430     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2005.01484.x     Document Type: Article

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