edited by Mary Allessio Leck, V. Thomas Parker, Robert L. Simpson
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xxii, 462 pages :
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illustrations ;
Dimensions
24 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-444) and index
CONTENTS NOTE
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Seed banks : general concepts and methodological issues / Robert L. Simpson, Mary Allessio Leck, and V. Thomas Parker -- Some aspects of the natural history of seed banks / Herbert G. Baker -- Predation in the dynamics of seed regeneration / Svaťa M. Louda -- Physiology of dormancy and germination in relation to seed bank ecology / Jerry M. Baskin and Carol C. Baskin -- Modeling the evolutionary ecology of seed banks / D. Lawrence Venable -- The role of buried viable seeds in arctic and alpine plant communities / James B. McGraw and Milan C. Vavrek -- Seed banks and vegetation processes in coniferous forests / O.W. Archibold -- Seed bank dynamics in temperate deciduous forest / S.T.A. Pickett and M.J. McDonnell -- Tropical soil seed banks : a review / Nancy C. Garwood -- Impacts of seed banks on grassland community structure and population dynamics / Kevin J. Rice -- Seed banks in California chaparral and other Mediterranean climate shrublands / V. Thomas Parker and Victoria R. Kelly
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Seed banks and vegetation processes in deserts / Paul R. Kemp -- Wetland seed banks / Mary Allessio Leck -- Seed banks in arable land / Paul B. Cavers and Diane L. Benoit -- Seed banks and the management and restoration of natural vegetation / A.G. van der Valk and Roger L. Pederson -- Seed banks and vegetation management for conservation : toward predictive community ecology / Paul A. Keddy [and others] -- Pattern and process in the dynamics of seed banks / V. Thomas Parker, Robert L. Simpson, and Mary Allessio Leck