Effect of grass litter on seedling recruitment of the critically endangered Cistus heterophyllus in Spain

Flora: Morphology, Distribution, Functional Ecology of Plants

Volumn 203, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 663-668

  Navarro Cano, Jose A ^a  

^a RESEARCH GROUP ON QUALITY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Allelopathy; Brachypodium retusum; Fire ecology; Germination; Plant conservation; Seedling emergence

Indexed keywords

ALLELOPATHY; ANGIOSPERM; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENDEMIC SPECIES; GERMINATION; GRASS; GROWTH RESPONSE; LITTER; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SEEDLING EMERGENCE; WILD POPULATION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

BRACHYPODIUM RETUSUM; CISTUS; CISTUS HETEROPHYLLUS;

EID: 53049100740     PISSN: 03672530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.flora.2007.10.008     Document Type: Article

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