Can the soil seed bank contribute to revegetation of the drawdown zone in the Three Gorges Reservoir Region?

Plant Ecology

Volumn 209, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 153-165

  Lu, Zhi Jun ^a,b   Li, Lian Fa ^a,b,c   Jiang, Ming Xi ^a,b   Huang, Han Dong ^a,b   Bao, Da Chuan ^a,b,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b Wuhan Institute of Botany Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Community succession; Rehabilitation; Riparian zone; Submergence; Three Gorges Dam

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL PLANT; DAM; DRAWDOWN; GERMINATION; PROPAGULE; RESERVOIR; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; REVEGETATION; RIPARIAN ZONE; SEED BANK; SEEDLING EMERGENCE; SPECIES RICHNESS; SUBMERGENCE; SUCCESSION; VEGETATION COVER; WATER LEVEL;

CHINA; THREE GORGES RESERVOIR;

EID: 77953478976     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-010-9732-y     Document Type: Article

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