Factors affecting the success of early salt-marsh colonizers: Seed availability rather than site suitability and dispersal traits

Plant Ecology

Volumn 206, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 335-347

  Erfanzadeh, Reza ^a,b   Garbutt, Angus ^c   Pétillon, Julien ^a   Maelfait, Jean Pierre ^a,d   Hoffmann, Maurice ^a,d  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^d RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR NATURE AND FOREST INBO   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Primary succession; Seed availability; Seed dispersal traits; Site suitability

Indexed keywords

COLONIZATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SALINITY; SALTMARSH; SEED BANK; SEED DISPERSAL; SEED SIZE; SUCCESSION;

EID: 75949114153     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-009-9646-8     Document Type: Article

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