Soil seed bank analysis of planted and naturally revegetating thermally-disturbed riparian wetland forests

Wetlands

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 211-223

  Landman, George B ^a   Kolka, Randall K ^b   Sharitz, Rebecca R ^c  

^a ESS Group Inc   (United States)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Riparian restoration; Successional gradient; Thermal disturbance

Indexed keywords

CONSTRUCTED WETLAND; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; RIPARIAN VEGETATION; SEED BANK; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

CAREX; JUNCUS;

EID: 55849084362     PISSN: 02775212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1672/0277-5212(2007)27[211:SSBAOP]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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