Effects of flooding on the germination of seed banks in the Nansi Lake wetlands, China

Journal of Freshwater Ecology

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 225-237

  Ge, Xiuli ^a,b   Liu, Jian ^a   Wang, Renqing ^a  

^a SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Shandong Polytechnic University   (China)

Author keywords

Emergence; Flooding; Germination rates; Regeneration; Seed bank; Wetlands

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; EMERGENCE; FLOODING; GERMINATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; REGENERATION; SEED BANK; SHALLOW WATER; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TOLERANCE; WETLAND;

CHINA; NANSI LAKE;

EID: 84877986730     PISSN: 02705060     EISSN: 21566941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02705060.2012.729494     Document Type: Article

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