Environmental factors driving seed bank diversity in alkali grasslands

Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment

Volumn 182, Issue , 2014, Pages 80-87

  Valkó, Orsolya ^a   Tóthmérész, Béla ^b   Kelemen, András ^b   Simon, Edina ^b   Miglécz, Tamás ^b   Lukács, Balázs András ^c   Török, Péter ^b  

^a MTA DE Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Research Group   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

^c MTA CENTRE FOR ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Dispersal; Elevation; Salinity; Salt marsh; Seed density; Seedling emergence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893765464     PISSN: 01678809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agee.2013.06.012     Document Type: Article

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