Artificial dispersal as a restoration tool in Meadows: Sowing or planting?

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 270-279

  Wallin, Lotta ^a   Svensson, Brita M ^a   Lönn, Mikael ^b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b School of Life Sciences Södertörn University   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Hay meadow; Hypochoeris maculata; Plug plant transpltantion; Population augmentation; Seed sowing; Succisa pratensis

Indexed keywords

HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HAY; HERB; INTRODUCED SPECIES; MEADOW; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SEED DISPERSAL; SOWING; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; SURVIVAL;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN;

ANIMALIA; ASTERACEAE; DIPSACACEAE; HYPOCHOERIS MACULATA; SUCCISA PRATENSIS;

EID: 62349092286     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2007.00350.x     Document Type: Article

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