Recent advances in soil seed bank research

Contemporary Problems of Ecology

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 520-524

  Wang, Yongcui ^a,b   Jiang, Deming ^a   Toshio, Oshida ^c   Zhou, Quanlai ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF APPLIED ECOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c AZABU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

disturbance; geographic factor; seed size; soil seed bank; vegetation

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CONDITIONS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SEED BANK; SEED SIZE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

EID: 84884780563     PISSN: 19954255     EISSN: 19954263     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1134/S1995425513050181     Document Type: Article

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