Restoration of wet grasslands - Effects of seed dispersal, persistence and abundance on plant species recruitment

Basic and Applied Ecology

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 409-421

  Rosenthal, Gert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hydrochory; Inundations; Recruitment; Seed limitation; Sink habitats; Soil seed bank; Source populations; Target species

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746809507     PISSN: 14391791     EISSN: 16180089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.baae.2006.05.006     Document Type: Article

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