Seed water status and root tip characteristics of two annual grasses on lichen-dominated biological soil crusts

Plant and Soil

Volumn 303, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 191-205

  Serpe, Marcelo D ^a   Zimmerman, Shawna J ^a   Deines, Lynell ^a   Rosentreter, Roger ^b  

^a BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b US Department of the Interior Bureau Land Management Idaho   (United States)

Author keywords

Bromus tectorum; Crustose lichens; Diploschistes muscorum; Seed germination; Vulpia microstachys; Water potential

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL PLANT; GERMINATION; GRASS; LICHEN; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; ROOT; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; SOIL CRUST; WATER CONTENT;

BROMUS; BROMUS TECTORUM; BRYOPHYTA; DIPLOSCHISTES; DIPLOSCHISTES MUSCORUM; POACEAE; VULPIA MICROSTACHYS;

EID: 38749129736     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11104-007-9498-8     Document Type: Article

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