The relationship between soil seed bank, above-ground vegetation and disturbance intensity on old-field successional permanent plots

Applied Vegetation Science

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 415-428

  Dolle, Michaela ^a   Schmidt, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

C S R strategy; Grassland; Old field succession; Ploughing; Recruitment limitation; Solidago canadensis

Indexed keywords

SOLIDAGO; SOLIDAGO CANADENSIS;

EID: 77949446038     PISSN: 14022001     EISSN: 1654109X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1654-109X.2009.01036.x     Document Type: Article

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