Are trade-offs in plant resprouting manifested in community seed banks?

Ecology

Volumn 89, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1850-1858

  Clarke, Peter J ^a   Dorji, Kinzang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Coexistence; Community ecology; Ecological strategies; Fire ecology; Fire regime; Persistence traits; Plant functional types; Resprouting; Rocky outcrops; Sclerophyll forest; Spatial scales; Sprouting

Indexed keywords

COEXISTENCE; DOMINANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FIRE; PERSISTENCE; PLANT COMMUNITY; REGENERATION; RESPROUTING; SEED BANK;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; ECOSYSTEM; FIRE; GERMINATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; PLANT SEED;

AUSTRALIA; ECOSYSTEM; FIRES; GERMINATION; PLANTS; SEEDS;

EID: 54549093625     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/07-0704.1     Document Type: Article

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