Establishment of rare flood meadow species by plant material transfer: Experimental tests of threshold amounts and the effect of sowing position

Biological Conservation

Volumn 159, Issue , 2013, Pages 222-229

  Schmiede, Ralf ^a   Ruprecht, Eszter ^b   Lutz Eckstein, R ^a   Otte, Annette ^a   Donath, Tobias W ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b BABE BOLYAI UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

Author keywords

Grassland restoration; Invasibility; Litter quantity; Seed size; Seedling emergence

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FITNESS; FLOODING; GARDEN; GRASSLAND; INVASIBILITY; LITTER; MEADOW; RESIDENT POPULATION; REVEGETATION; SEED SIZE; SEEDLING EMERGENCE; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; SOWING; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SURVIVAL; THRESHOLD;

EID: 84872715341     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2012.11.017     Document Type: Article

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