Burial of canopy-stored seeds in the annual psammophyte Agriophyllum squarrosum Moq. (Chenopodiaceae) and its ecological significance

Plant and Soil

Volumn 288, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 71-80

  Liu, Zhimin ^a   Yan, Qiaoling ^a   Baskin, Carol C ^b,c   Ma, Junling ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF APPLIED ECOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Active sand dune; Aerial seed bank; Germination; Seed protection; Seedling emergence; Soil seed bank

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL PLANT; ARID REGION; CANOPY; DEAD WOOD; DUNE; GERMINATION; SEED BANK; SEED BURIAL; SEEDLING EMERGENCE;

ASIA; CENTRAL ASIA; EURASIA;

ACER PENSYLVANICUM; AGRIOPHYLLUM SQUARROSUM; AMARANTHACEAE;

EID: 33750435535     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11104-006-9090-7     Document Type: Article

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