Supplementing seed banks to rehabilitate disturbed Mojave Desert shrublands: Where do all the seeds go?

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 85-94

  Defalco, Lesley A ^a   Esque, Todd C ^a   Nicklas, Melissa B ^a,b   Kane, Jeffrey M ^a,c  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b School of Forestry ^*  (United States)

^c NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arid land restoration; Germination requirements; Harvester ants; Messor pergandei; Plant competition; Rodents

Indexed keywords

ARID REGION; BULK DENSITY; GERMINATION; GRANIVORY; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; REVEGETATION; RODENT; SEED BANK; SEEDLING; SHRUBLAND; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TOPSOIL;

MOJAVE DESERT; UNITED STATES;

ENCELIA FARINOSA; FORMICIDAE; MESSOR PERGANDEI; RODENTIA;

EID: 84855417978     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2010.00739.x     Document Type: Article

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