The article highlights a comparatively neglected area of biogeographical research-seed
banks and the distribution of seeds in the soil. The article reviews some of the relevant …

土壤种子库是指存在于表层土壤(包括凋落物) 中的有生命的种子. 土壤种子库的研究已是植物
生态学研究不可缺少的一部分, 现已成为植物种群生态学中比较活跃的领域 …

Around 20 per cent of the Earth's land surface (excluding Antarctica) supports grasslands of
varying degrees of naturalness from those that are in pristine state to those that are …

The Functional Ecology of Soil Seed Banks Page 1 Chapter 9 The Functional Ecology of Soil
Seed Banks Ken Thompson Unit of Comparative Plant Ecology, Department of Animal and …

1. Soil seed banks of 38 grassland sites in western Europe were sampled and species
composition was determined. All sites differed in geographical region, soil type and intensity …

We asked whether forest structure and understory light environments across a tropical moist
forest chronosequence followed predictions of a 4‐phase model of secondary succession …

Endozoochrous seed dispersal by herbivorous mammals has been verified repeatedly and
its possible influence on the structure and function of herbaceous communities has been …

Our main aim was to determine the contribution of the seed bank to vegetation regeneration
following a disturbance consisting in a deep ploughing and a thorough homogenisation of a …

I studied the vegetation and seed bank in an 18-yr-old, replicated experiment with grazed
and ungrazed plots in a semi-natural, perennial grassland in southern Sweden. In the …

The seed bank dynamics of annuals in two Mediterranean temporary marshes were studied
in order to investigate the impact of the disturbance regime on coexistence. The disturbance …