Exotic ecosystem engineers change the emergence of plants from the seed bank of a deciduous forest

Ecosystems

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1008-1016

  Eisenhauer, Nico ^a,c   Straube, Daniela ^a   Johnson, Edward A ^b   Parkinson, Dennis ^b   Scheu, Stefan ^a,c  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Above and belowground interactions; Exotic earthworms; Lumbricus terrestris; Octolasion tyrtaeum; Plant seedlings; Seedling emergence; Soil seed bank

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DECIDUOUS FOREST; EARTHWORM; FUNCTIONAL CHANGE; GRASS; HERB; HUMAN ACTIVITY; INVASIVE SPECIES; LEGUME; NATIVE SPECIES; SEED BANK; SEED BURIAL; SEED DISPERSAL; SEEDLING EMERGENCE; UNDERSTORY;

NORTH AMERICA;

LUMBRICUS TERRESTRIS; OCTOLASION TYRTAEUM;

EID: 70349664420     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: 14350629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-009-9275-z     Document Type: Article

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