The role of soil seed banks in natural restoration of the degraded Hunshandak sandlands, Northern China

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 127-136

  Liu, Meizhen ^a   Jiang, Gaoming ^a   Yu, Shunli ^a   Li, Yonggeng ^a   Li, Gang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

Author keywords

Degraded grassland; Hunshandak sandlands; Restoration; Soil seed banks

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; GRASSLAND; LAND DEGRADATION; PIONEER SPECIES; REINTRODUCTION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; REVEGETATION; SEED BANK; SUCCESSION;

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

EID: 58149504265     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2008.00366.x     Document Type: Article

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