Seed banks: Ecological definitions and sampling considerations

Community Ecology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 75-85

  Csontos, Peter ^a  

^a EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Depth distribution; Horizontal distribution; Minimal volume; Review; Sampling time

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION; SAMPLING; SEED BANK; SEED DISPERSAL; VEGETATION TYPE; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 34447569309     PISSN: 15858553     EISSN: 15882756     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1556/ComEc.8.2007.1.10     Document Type: Review

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