Species trait shifts in vegetation and soil seed bank during fen degradation

Plant Ecology

Volumn 206, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 59-82

  Klimkowska, Agata ^a,b,e   Bekker, Renée M ^a   van Diggelen, Rudy ^c   Kotowski, Wiktor ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^e WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic disturbance; Clonal growth; Drainage; Seed bank longevity; Shifts in plant trait spectra

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIODEGRADATION; CLONAL GROWTH; FEN; GROWTH RATE; LONGEVITY; MEADOW; MOWING; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; REGENERATION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SEED BANK; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; WATERLOGGING;

CENTRAL EUROPE;

EID: 72249120576     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-009-9624-1     Document Type: Article

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