A comparison of vegetation and seed bank community structure in a sand prairie in Illinois, U.S.A

American Midland Naturalist

Volumn 164, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 136-150

  McNicoll, Molly B ^a   Augspurger, Carol K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Gleason and Cronquist (1991)

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOMINANCE; FLORISTICS; GRASS; GRASSLAND; PERENNIAL PLANT; PLANT COMMUNITY; PRAIRIE; REGENERATION; SEED BANK; SPECIES EVENNESS; SPECIES RICHNESS; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

ILLINOIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77954038827     PISSN: 00030031     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1674/0003-0031-164.1.136     Document Type: Article

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