Recruitment requirements of the rare and threatened Juncus atratus

Flora: Morphology, Distribution, Functional Ecology of Plants

Volumn 205, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 583-589

  Burkart, Michael ^a   Alsleben, Katja ^a   Lachmuth, Susanne ^a   Schumacher, Juliane ^a   Hofmann, Ralf ^a   Jeltsch, Florian ^a   Schurr, Frank M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Competition; Facilitation; Flooding; Germination; Seedling establishment; Vegetation structure

Indexed keywords

COEXISTENCE; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); ENDANGERED SPECIES; EXTINCTION; FLOODING; GERMINATION; GRASSLAND; HABITAT TYPE; HERB; HYDRODYNAMICS; LIGHT INTENSITY; MARSH; ONTOGENY; OXYGEN; PERENNIAL PLANT; RARE SPECIES; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SEEDLING EMERGENCE; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; WATER USE;

CENTRAL EUROPE;

JUNCUS ATRATUS;

EID: 77956265588     PISSN: 03672530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.flora.2009.08.003     Document Type: Article

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