Seed banks of temperate deciduous forests during secondary succession

Journal of Vegetation Science

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 965-978

  Plue, Jan ^a   Verheyen, Kris ^b   Van Calster, Hans ^c   Marage, Damien ^d   Thompson, Ken ^e   Kalamees, Rein ^f   Jankowska Blaszczuk, Malgorzata ^g   Bossuyt, Beatrijs ^b   Hermy, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c Institute for Nature and Forest Research   (Belgium)

^d AGROPARISTECH   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^g JAN KOCHANOWSKI UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Ancient forest; Former land use; Land use intensity; Post agricultural succession; Post clear cut succession; Recent forest

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; CLEARCUTTING; DATA SET; DECIDUOUS FOREST; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FOREST COVER; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HETEROGENEITY; LAND USE CHANGE; NUMERICAL MODEL; SECONDARY SUCCESSION; SEED BANK;

EID: 77956304166     PISSN: 11009233     EISSN: 16541103     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1654-1103.2010.01203.x     Document Type: Article

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