Small-scale seed-bank patterns in a forest soil

Seed Science Research

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 13-22

  Plue, Jan ^a   Goyens, Geertrui ^a   Van Meirvenne, Marc ^b   Verheyen, Kris ^b   Hermy, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Deciduous forest; Fine scale spatial structure; Geostatistics; Indicator variogram; Sampling implications

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952550956     PISSN: 09602585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0960258509990201     Document Type: Article

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