Tools for Carex revegetation in freshwater wetlands: Understanding dormancy loss and germination temperature requirements

Plant Ecology

Volumn 193, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 157-169

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cold stratification; Prairie pothole wetlands; Sedge; Seed ecology; Wetland restoration

Indexed keywords

FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; GERMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; REVEGETATION; SEDGE; SEED DORMANCY; TEMPERATURE; WETLAND; WETLAND MANAGEMENT;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

CAREX; PHALARIS; PHALARIS ARUNDINACEA;

EID: 35448973369     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-006-9255-8     Document Type: Article

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