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Effects of mosaic biological soil crusts on vascular plant establishment in a coastal saline land of the Yellow River Delta,China |
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| Authors: | Lu Feng Jiang-Bao Xia Jing-Tao Liu Ai-Yun Song Yin-Ping Chen and Xi-Mei Zhao |
| Institution: | Shandong Key Laboratory of Eco-Environmental Science for the Yellow River Delta, Binzhou University, Binzhou 256603, China; *Corresponding author. E-mail: xiajb@163.com |
| Abstract: | Aims The effects of biocrusts on vascular plants are rarely evaluated in coastal saline lands. Our aim was to examine whether and how a mosaic of biocrusts affect seed germination of two typical herbaceous plants in a coastal saline land of the Yellow River Delta, to enhance our understanding by which substrate heterogeneity influences plant community dynamics. |
| Keywords: | seed germination biological soil crusts plant community structure salt ions coastal saline land |
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