Temperature requirements for dormancy break and seed germination vary greatly among 14 wetland Carex species

Aquatic Botany

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 209-220

  Kettenring, Karin M ^a   Galatowitsch, Susan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cold stratification; Germination temperature; Glacial wetland; Prairie pothole region; Sedge; Seed dormancy; Seed germination ecology

Indexed keywords

EMERGENCE; GERMINATION; GROWING SEASON; REVEGETATION; SEDGE; SEED BANK; SEED DORMANCY; STRATIFICATION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; VIABILITY; WETLAND;

CAREX; CAREX ATHERODES; CAREX BREVIOR; CAREX COMOSA; CAREX CRISTATELLA; CAREX CRYPTOLEPIS; CAREX GRANULARIS; CAREX HYSTERICINA; CAREX LACUSTRIS; CAREX PELLITA; CAREX SCOPARIA; CAREX STIPATA; CAREX STRICTA; CAREX UTRICULATA; CAREX VULPINOIDEA; CRYPTOLEPIS; SCOPARIA;

EID: 34548261887     PISSN: 03043770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aquabot.2007.06.003     Document Type: Article

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