Determinants of seed bank dynamics of two dominant helophytes in a tidal salt marsh

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 800-809

  Wang, Cheng huan ^a   Tang, Long ^a   Fei, Shen feng ^a   Wang, Jin qing ^a   Gao, Yang ^a   Wang, Qing ^a   Chen, Jia kuan ^a   Li, Bo ^a  

^a Beijing Normal University   (China)

Author keywords

Dispersal; Plant invasion; Scirpus mariqueter; Seed bank; Spartina alterniflora

Indexed keywords

DISPERSAL; PLANT INVASION; SCIRPUS MARIQUETER; SEED BANK; SPARTINA ALTERNIFLORA;

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; BIOMASS; DYNAMICS; RAIN; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SOILS;

SEED;

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; CONSERVATION PLANNING; DISPERSAL; DOMINANCE; ELEVATION; GERMINATION; GRASS; HERB; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; MONOCULTURE; NATURE RESERVE; PLANT COMMUNITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SALTMARSH; SEED BANK; SEED PRODUCTION; SEED RAIN; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ASIA; CHINA; CHONGMING DONGTAN NATURE RESERVE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; SHANGHAI;

PHRAGMITES; SCIRPUS; SCIRPUS MARIQUETER; SPARTINA; SPARTINA ALTERNIFLORA;

EID: 64649095361     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2008.12.004     Document Type: Article

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