Spatial distribution patterns and relationship between recent vegetation and diaspore bank of a brackish coastal lagoon on the southern Baltic Sea

Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science

Volumn 74, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 205-214

  Steinhardt, Tim ^a   Selig, Uwe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

brackish water; charophytes; dispersal; eutrophication; exposition; seed bank; submerged macrophytes

Indexed keywords

ANGIOSPERM; BRACKISH WATER; CHAROPHYTE; COASTAL LAGOON; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DIASPORE; DISPERSAL; EUTROPHICATION; MACROPHYTE; POPULATION DENSITY; SEED BANK; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SUBMERGED VEGETATION; VEGETATION COVER; WATER DEPTH;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA;

CHARA; CHARA BALTICA; CHARACEAE; CHARALES; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; PECTINATUS; POTAMOGETON PECTINATUS; RUPPIA CIRRHOSA; TOLYPELLA NIDIFICA; ZANNICHELLIA PALUSTRIS; ZOSTERA MARINA; ZOSTERA NOLTII;

EID: 34250750793     PISSN: 02727714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecss.2007.04.004     Document Type: Article

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