The role of local species pool, soil seed bank and seedling pool in natural vegetation restoration on abandoned slope land

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 52, Issue , 2013, Pages 28-36

  Wang, Ning ^a   Jiao, Ju Ying ^a,b   Du, Hua Dong ^a   Wang, Dong Li ^b   Jia, Yan Feng ^a,c   Chen, Yu ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION   (China)

^b NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SHENYANG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Colonization; Dispersal; Loess Plateau region; Seed germination; Seedling establishment; Soil erosion

Indexed keywords

COLONIZATION; DISPERSAL; LOESS PLATEAU; SEED GERMINATION; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; SOIL EROSION;

BANK PROTECTION; EROSION; FORESTRY; LAKES; LANDFORMS; RESTORATION; SOILS; VEGETATION;

SEED;

ABANDONED LAND; COLONIZATION; GERMINATION; GROWING SEASON; HUMAN ACTIVITY; RECOLONIZATION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SEED BANK; SEED DISPERSAL; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; SOIL EROSION; SPECIES POOL;

CHINA; LOESS PLATEAU; SHAANXI;

EID: 84872394847     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2012.12.055     Document Type: Article

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