Spatiotemporal pattern of seed bank in the annual psammophyte Agriophyllum squarrosum Moq. (Chenopodiaceae) on the active sand dunes of northeastern Inner Mongolia, China

Plant and Soil

Volumn 311, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 97-107

  Ma, Junling ^a,b   Liu, Zhimin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF APPLIED ECOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Canopy stored seeds; Depth; Dune position; Sand burial; Wind erosion; Windy season

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BURIAL (GEOLOGY); DICOTYLEDON; DUNE; SEED BANK; SOIL PROFILE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WIND EROSION;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; NEI MONGGOL;

ACER PENSYLVANICUM; AGRIOPHYLLUM SQUARROSUM; AMARANTHACEAE;

EID: 51449113214     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11104-008-9661-x     Document Type: Article

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