Claim · model-written summary
Temporal variability mattered more than spatial variability for germinable seed storage.
- Taxon
- seedse0
- Outcome
- storage of germinable seedse0
- Direction
- more importante0
- Comparator
- spatial variabilitye0
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Verbatim
e0“temporal variability, which was more important to the storage of germinable seeds than spatial variability”
Title
Spatial and Temporal Variation in the Seed Bank of a Semiarid Grassland
Debra P. Coffin; William K. Lauenroth American Journal of Botany 1989. doi:10.2307/2444773
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- Observation Annual plant seeds largely explained differences between the two communities.
- Observation Numbers of stored seeds differed between the two sampling years and seasonally within years.
- Observation Seedling emergence from samples ranged from 122 to 2,748 per square meter.
- Association Plant community species composition corresponded poorly with stored germinable seeds.
- Association Species composition of seeds produced on sites was highly similar to emerged seedlings.
- Observation Most species had a transient presence in the seed bank.