The Role of Propagule Banks from Drainage Ditches Dominated by Free-Floating or Submerged Plants in Vegetation Restoration

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 416-425

  van Zuidam, Jeroen P ^a   Raaphorst, Ernst P ^a   Peeters, Edwin T H M ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Macrophytes; Monocultures; Propagules; Recovery potential; Sediment disturbance; Seedbank

Indexed keywords

COLONIZATION; GERMINATION; MACROPHYTE; MONOCULTURE; PLANT; REINTRODUCTION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

NETHERLANDS;

EID: 84860185629     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2011.00784.x     Document Type: Article

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