Correlates of inter-specific variation in germination response to water stress in a semi-arid savannah

Basic and Applied Ecology

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 645-652

  Kos, Martijn ^a   Poschlod, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dormancy; Drought tolerance; Facilitation; Nurse plants; PEG; Predictive germination; Seed mass; Soil moisture; Soil texture; Southern Kalahari

Indexed keywords

ACACIA;

EID: 51249086294     PISSN: 14391791     EISSN: 16180089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.baae.2007.10.005     Document Type: Article

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