Desiccation cracks act as natural seed traps in flood-meadow systems

Plant and Soil

Volumn 333, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 351-364

  Burmeier, Sandra ^a   Eckstein, R Lutz ^a   Otte, Annette ^a   Donath, Tobias W ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alluvial meadows; Burial experiment; Grassland; Seed fate; Soil seed bank

Indexed keywords

CLAY SOIL; DESICCATION; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; MEADOW; PLANT COMMUNITY; SEED BANK; SOIL DEPTH; SURVIVAL; VEGETATION TYPE;

EID: 77954690192     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11104-010-0350-1     Document Type: Article

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