Similarity between seed bank and herb layer in a natural deciduous temperate lowland forest

Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 157-166

  Wódkiewicz, Maciej ^a   Kwiatkowska Falińska, Anna Justyna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

A primeval forest; Bia ; Oak hornbeam; Owie ; Seed extraction method; Soil seed bank; Species dominance structure; Species similarity

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955116492     PISSN: 00016977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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