Effects of changes in the timing and duration of the wet season on the germination of the soil seed bank of a seeder-dominated Mediterranean shrubland

Plant Ecology

Volumn 213, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 919-931

  Céspedes, Blanca ^a   Torres, Iván ^a   Urbieta, Itziar R ^a   Moreno, José M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cistus; Climate change; Germination temperature; Heat shock; Post fire regeneration; Rainfall pattern; Rosmarinus

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DICOTYLEDON; FIRE; GERMINATION; HEAT SHOCK; HERB; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; PHOTOPERIOD; RAINFALL; REGENERATION; SEASONALITY; SEED BANK; SHRUBLAND; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; WET SEASON;

CISTUS; DICOTYLEDONEAE; LILIOPSIDA; ROSMARINUS;

EID: 84862243136     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-012-0053-1     Document Type: Article

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