Using sediment seed banks and historical vegetation change data to develop restoration criteria for a eutrophic lake in China

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 39, Issue , 2012, Pages 95-103

  Lu, Jing ^a,c   Wang, Haibin ^a,c   Pan, Min ^b   Xia, Jing ^a   Xing, Wei ^a   Liu, Guihua ^a  

^a Wuhan Institute of Botany Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b The Ecology Institute of Lake Dianchi   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Historical changes; Macrophyte re establishment; Maximum growth depth; Seed dispersal; Species richness

Indexed keywords

HISTORICAL CHANGES; MACROPHYTE RE-ESTABLISHMENT; MAXIMUM GROWTH DEPTH; SEED DISPERSAL; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; LAKES; PHOSPHORUS; RESTORATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEED; TURBIDITY; VEGETATION;

BANK PROTECTION;

EUTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; GROWTH RATE; HISTORICAL RECORD; MACROPHYTE; PHOSPHORUS; REINTRODUCTION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SEED BANK; SEED DISPERSAL; SPECIES RICHNESS; SUBMERGED VEGETATION; TURBIDITY; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; WATER DEPTH;

CHINA; DIANCHI LAKE; YUNNAN;

EID: 84455193593     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2011.11.006     Document Type: Article

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