Soil seed banks of degraded riparian zones in southeastern Australia and their potential contribution to the restoration of understorey vegetation

River Research and Applications

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1002-1017

  Williams, Laura ^a   Reich, Paul ^a   Capon, Samantha J ^a   Raulings, Elisa ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Exotic species; Floodplain vegetation; Plant ecology; Revegetation; Stream restoration

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; RIPARIAN VEGETATION; RIPARIAN ZONE; SEED BANK;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; GOULBURN RIVER; VICTORIA [AUSTRALIA];

CAREX; JUNCUS; POACEAE;

EID: 52949116448     PISSN: 15351459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rra.1123     Document Type: Article

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