Climatic variation and seed persistence: freeze–thaw cycles lower survival via the joint action of abiotic stress and fungal pathogens

Oecologia

Volumn 179, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 609-616

  Connolly, Brian M ^a   Orrock, John L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Elymus canadensis; Emergence; Phenology; Soil pathogens

Indexed keywords

ABIOTIC FACTOR; CLIMATE VARIATION; FREEZE-THAW CYCLE; FUNGAL DISEASE; FUNGICIDE; FUNGUS; GRASS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; PATHOGENICITY; PERENNIAL PLANT; PHENOLOGY; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SEED DORMANCY; SEEDLING EMERGENCE; SURVIVAL;

ELYMUS CANADENSIS; FUNGI;

CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; FREEZING; FUNGUS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT SEED; POACEAE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASON; SEEDLING;

CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; FREEZING; FUNGI; POACEAE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASONS; SEEDLINGS; SEEDS; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 84941996327     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-015-3369-4     Document Type: Article

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