Soil vs. canopy seed storage and plant species coexistence in species-rich Australian shrublands

Ecology

Volumn 88, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 2292-2304

  Enright, N J ^a,c   Mosner, E ^b   Miller, B P ^a,c   Johnson, N ^c   Lamont, Byron B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^c CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Canopy seed bank; Coexistence; Fire; Serotiny; Shrublands; Soil seed bank; Southwestern Australia; Species richness

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CANOPY; COEXISTENCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; LIFE HISTORY; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; SEED BANK; SEROTINY; SHRUBLAND; SOIL; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; STORAGE;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

AVES; FORMICIDAE;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT SEED; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOIL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

AUSTRALIA; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; PLANTS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEEDS; SOIL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 38449123160     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/06-1343.1     Document Type: Article

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