Resilience, persistence and relationship to standing vegetation in soil seed banks of semi-arid Australian old fields

Applied Vegetation Science

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 48-61

  Scott, Andrew J ^a   Morgan, John W ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Annual forb; Chronosequence; Dispersal; Grassland; Restoration; Secondary succession

Indexed keywords

CAREX; JUNCUS;

EID: 84855992313     PISSN: 14022001     EISSN: 1654109X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1654-109X.2011.01153.x     Document Type: Article

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