Variation in soil seed bank species composition of a dry coniferous forest: Spatial scale and sampling considerations

Plant Ecology

Volumn 197, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 173-181

  Stark, Kaeli E ^a   Arsenault, André ^b   Bradfield, Gary E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b RESEARCH BRANCH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Heterogeneity; Interior Douglas fir; Multi Response Permutation Procedures; Spatial pattern; Species area curves

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DATA SET; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; HETEROGENEITY; SAMPLING; SEED BANK; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

PSEUDOTSUGA; PSEUDOTSUGA MENZIESII;

EID: 45749150781     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-007-9368-8     Document Type: Article

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