Restoration Potential in Seed Banks of Acidic Fen and Dry-Mesophilous Meadows: Can Restoration Be Based on Local Seed Banks?

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 19, Issue SPEC.ISSUE, 2011, Pages 9-15

  Valkó, Orsolya ^a   Török, Péter ^a   Tóthmérész, Béla ^a   Matus, Gábor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Abandonment; Brachypodium; Grassland; Juncus; Molinia; Mowing

Indexed keywords

ABOVEGROUND PRODUCTION; GRASSLAND; MOWING; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SEED BANK; SPECIES RICHNESS; VEGETATION TYPE;

BRACHYPODIUM; JUNCUS; JUNCUS CONGLOMERATUS; JUNCUS EFFUSUS; MOLINIA;

EID: 78651291861     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2010.00679.x     Document Type: Article

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