Soil seed bank characteristics beneath an age sequence of Caragana microphylla shrubs in the Horqin Sandy Land region of northeastern China

Land Degradation and Development

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 236-243

  Li, X ^a   Jiang, D ^a   Zhou, Q ^a   Oshida, T ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF APPLIED ECOLOGY   (China)

^b AZABU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Caragana microphylla; Horqin Sandy Land; PR China; Seed density; Shrub facilitation; Soil seed bank

Indexed keywords

ARID REGIONS; BANK PROTECTION; FORESTRY; SOILS; VEGETATION;

CARAGANA MICROPHYLLA; HORQIN SANDY LANDS; PR CHINAS; SHRUB FACILITATION; SOIL SEED BANK;

SEED;

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; LAND DEGRADATION; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SEED BANK; SEMIARID REGION; SHRUB; VEGETATION COVER;

CHINA; HORQIN DESERT; NEI MONGGOL;

CARAGANA; CARAGANA MICROPHYLLA; CHENOPODIUM; CHENOPODIUM ACUMINATUM; CHENOPODIUM GLAUCUM; CORISPERMUM; ERAGROSTIS; ERAGROSTIS PILOSA; SETARIA VIRIDIS;

EID: 84902083541     PISSN: 10853278     EISSN: 1099145X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ldr.2135     Document Type: Article

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