Ecological correlations between the persistence of the soil seed bank and several plant traits, including seed dormancy

Plant Ecology

Volumn 196, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 301-309

  Honda, Yukio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Germination; Life history; Seed longevity; Seed mass; Seed persistence

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATABASE; ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; LONGEVITY; PERSISTENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCARIFICATION; SEED BANK; SEED DORMANCY; SEED SIZE; SURVIVAL;

EID: 42549111198     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-007-9360-3     Document Type: Article

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