Climatic control of forest herb seed banks along a latitudinal gradient

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1106-1117

  Plue, Jan ^a   De Frenne, Pieter ^b   Acharya, Kamal ^c   Brunet, Jörg ^d   Chabrerie, Olivier ^e   Decocq, Guillaume ^e   Diekmann, Martin ^f   Graae, Bente J ^c   Heinken, Thilo ^g   Hermy, Martin ^h   Kolb, Annette ^f   Lemke, Isgard ^f   Liira, Jaan ⁱ   Naaf, Tobias ^j   Shevtsova, Anna ^k   Verheyen, Kris ^b   Wulf, Monika ^j   Cousins, Sara A O ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^d SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE PICARDIE JULES VERNE   (France)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^j LEIBNIZ CENTRE FOR AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPE RESEARCH ZALF   (Germany)

^k UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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Author keywords

Climate change; Interspecific variation; Plant climate interaction; Seed longevity; Seed production; Temperate deciduous forest; Temperature

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DECIDUOUS FOREST; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HERB; INTERSPECIFIC VARIATION; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; LONGEVITY; SEED BANK; SEED PRODUCTION; TEMPERATE FOREST; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

EUROPE;

GEUM; GEUM URBANUM; MILIUM EFFUSUM; POA; POA NEMORALIS; STACHYS; STACHYS SYLVATICA;

EID: 84883555041     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/geb.12068     Document Type: Article

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