Effect of fire on hard-coated Cistaceae seed banks and its influence on techniques for quantifying seed banks
Author: Ferrandis, Pablo; Herranz, Jose M.; Martinez-Sanchez, Juan J. Description: The impact of fire on hard-coated Cistaceae (Halimium ocymoides, Cistus ladanifer, and C. salvifolius) soil seed banks in a Mediterranean ‘maquis’ shrubland, and its effect on seed germinability were studied. The study also contrasts the effectiveness of two widely used techniques for quantifying seed banks, the seedling emergence and the physical separation methods, in relation to fire. The null hypothesis that a massive enhancement of physically-dormant Cistaceae seed germination by fire would make use of the time-consuming physical separation technique…
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