
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Navie, SC 
A1  - Cowley, RA 
A1  - Rogers, RW 
T1  - The Relationship Between Distance From Water and the Soil Seed Bank in a Grazed Semi-Arid Subtropical Rangeland
JF  - Australian Journal of Botany
JO  - Aust. J. Bot.
Y1  - 1996
VL  - 44
IS  - 4
SP  - 421
EP  - 431
KW  - 
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1071/BT9960421 
N2  - The germinable soil seed bank of a grassy Eucalyptus populnea F.Muell, open woodland was investigated in relationship to distance from water (away from a bore-drain) on North Yancho Station, near Bollon in southern semi-arid Queensland. The germinable soil seed bank was both diverse and abundant, 69 taxa of seedlings being identified to species and 2 more to genus. A mean density of 13 207 &#177; 4160 seeds m-2 was recorded, with over 80% of the seed being from the annual forbs Crassula sieberana (Schultes &amp; J.H.Shultes) Druce, Wahlenbergia tumidifructa P.J.Smith and Dysphania gomulifera (Nees) Paul G.Wilson. Most common species showed spatial variation in their germinable seed density with relation to distance from water, resembling the patterns previously reported by other authors for standing vegetation under stocking pressure gradients. 
ER  -

