Seasonal and spatial variance of seed bank species composition in an oligotrophic wet meadow

Flora: Morphology, Distribution, Functional Ecology of Plants

Volumn 203, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 204-214

  Weiterová, Iva ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Gap; Molinion; Moss layer; Seasonal variability; Small scale variability; Spatial variability

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; EMERGENCE; GERMINATION; MEADOW; MICROTOPOGRAPHY; MOSS; OLIGOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEED BANK; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL VARIATION;

BRYOPHYTA; CAREX; MOLINIA; MOLINIA CAERULEA;

EID: 41649095663     PISSN: 03672530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.flora.2007.03.003     Document Type: Article

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