Landscape-scale variation in the seed banks of floodplain wetlands with contrasting hydrology in China

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1862-1878

  Liu, Gui H ^a   Li, Wei ^a   Li, En H ^a   Yuan, Long Y ^a   Davy, Anthony J ^b  

^a Wuhan Institute of Botany Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chao 2; Marsh; Rarefaction curve; Seed bank diversity; Species richness

Indexed keywords

DISCRETE CHOICE ANALYSIS; FLOODPLAIN; HETEROGENEITY; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; RUNOFF; SEED BANK; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; WETLAND;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; YANGTZE RIVER;

EID: 33748744363     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2006.01621.x     Document Type: Article

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