Seed Treatment Optimizes Benefits of Seed Bank Storage for Restoration-Ready Seeds: The Feasibility of Prestorage Dormancy Alleviation for Mine-Site Revegetation

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 186-192

  Turner, Shane R ^a,b   Steadman, Kathryn J ^c   Vlahos, Stephen ^d   Koch, John M ^b,e   Dixon, Kingsley W ^a,b  

^a KINGS PARK AND BOTANIC GARDEN   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d BHP Billiton Worsley Alumina Pty Ltd   (Australia)

^e Alcoa of Australia ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

Land restoration; Mining; Seed broadcasting; Seed dormancy; Seed germination

Indexed keywords

LAND RECLAMATION; MINING; REVEGETATION; SEED BANK; SEED DORMANCY; SEED TREATMENT;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84874765277     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2012.00879.x     Document Type: Article

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