Landscape pattern of seed banks and anthropogenic impacts in forested wetlands of the northern Mississippi River Alluvial Valley

Ecoscience

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 231-240

  Middleton, Beth ^a   Wu, X Ben ^b  

^a NATIONAL WETLANDS RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Farming; Flood pulse; Seed dispersal; Spatial ecology; Taxodium distichum

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; FLOODPLAIN; FRAGMENTATION; LAND COVER; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; SEED BANK; SEED DISPERSAL; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; WATERSHED; WETLAND;

ARKANSAS; CACHE RIVER; ILLINOIS; MISSISSIPPI RIVER; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

TAXODIUM; TAXODIUM DISTICHUM;

EID: 48049104129     PISSN: 11956860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2980/15-2-2882     Document Type: Article

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