Elevation and micro environmental conditions directly and indirectly influence forests’ soil seed bank communities

Elevation and micro environmental conditions directly and indirectly influence forests’ soil seed bank communities

The soil seed bank (SSB) plays an important role in determining future community composition and health of forests. The extent to which abiotic conditions alter the abundance and diversity of the future forest composition via modulating the regenerative capacity of the SSB and their relationship wit...

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Main Authors: Chaobo Zou, Francesco Martini, Shang-Wen Xia, Diana Castillo-Diaz, Uromi Manage Goodale
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021-04-01
Series:Global Ecology and Conservation
Subjects:
Canopy openness
Diversity indices
Microenvironment
Rarity
Soil nutrients
Soil pH
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2351989420309859

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