Soil seed bank, fire season, and temporal patterns of germination in a seeder-dominated Mediterranean shrubland

Plant Ecology

Volumn 213, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 383-393

  Céspedes, Blanca ^a   Torres, Iván ^a   Luna, Belén ^a   Pérez, Beatriz ^a   Moreno, J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cistus; Germination temperature; Global change; Rainfall patterns; Regeneration strategy; Rosmarinus

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; GERMINATION; GLOBAL CHANGE; HERB; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; RAINFALL; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); REGENERATION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEED BANK; SHRUB; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WATER AVAILABILITY;

CISTUS; CISTUS SALVIIFOLIUS; DICOTYLEDONEAE; LILIOPSIDA; ROSMARINUS; ROSMARINUS OFFICINALIS;

EID: 84857923963     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-011-9983-2     Document Type: Article

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