Seed banks are biodiversity reservoirs: Species-area relationships above versus below ground

Oikos

Volumn 125, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 218-228

  Vandvik, Vigdis ^a   Klanderud, Kari ^a,b   Meineri, Eric ^a,c   Måren, Inger E ^a   Töpper, Joachim ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d WESTERN NORWAY UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCLIMATOLOGY; BIODIVERSITY; BIOME; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; DATA SET; DIVERSITY INDEX; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; GRASSLAND; LITERATURE REVIEW; PLANT COMMUNITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SEED BANK;

EID: 84956588820     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/oik.02022     Document Type: Article

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