Soil seed bank dynamics in alpine wetland succession on the Tibetan Plateau

Plant and Soil

Volumn 346, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 19-28

  Ma, Miaojun ^a   Zhou, Xianhui ^a   Du, Guozhen ^a  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Alpine wetland; Similarity; Soil seed bank; Succession; Tibetan Plateau; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; HABITAT RESTORATION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SEED BANK; SOIL DEPTH; SPECIES RICHNESS; SUCCESSION; WETLAND;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 80051666674     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11104-011-0790-2     Document Type: Article

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