The role of successional stage and small-scale disturbance for establishment of pioneer grass Corynephorus canescens

Applied Vegetation Science

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 326-335

  Tschöpe, Okka ^a   Tielbörger, Katja ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Emergence rate; Environmental variability; Facilitation; Habitat management; Persistence; Survival rate

Indexed keywords

CORYNEPHORUS CANESCENS;

EID: 77954339406     PISSN: 14022001     EISSN: 1654109X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1654-109X.2009.01072.x     Document Type: Article

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