Soil seed banks in degraded and revegetated grasslands in the alpine region of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 49, Issue , 2012, Pages 77-83

  Li, Yuan yuan ^a   Dong, Shi kui ^a,b   Wen, Lu ^a   Wang, Xue xia ^a   Wu, Yu ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Degradation levels; Revegetated grasslands; Similarity; Soil seed bank

Indexed keywords

ALPINE REGIONS; DETRENDED CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS; QINGHAI-TIBETAN PLATEAU; REVEGETATED GRASSLANDS; SEASONAL CHANGES; SEED BANK; SIMILARITY; SIMILARITY INDICES; SOIL SEED BANK; SPECIES COMPOSITION; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

RESTORATION; SOILS; VEGETATION;

BANK PROTECTION;

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; ASSESSMENT METHOD; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; FORAGE; GRASSLAND; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; REVEGETATION; SEED BANK; SOIL TYPE; VARIANCE ANALYSIS; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

CAREX; POACEAE;

EID: 84866719014     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2012.08.022     Document Type: Article

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