
%0 Journal Article
%A Forcella, F 
%T A species-area curve for buried viable seeds
%J Australian Journal of Agricultural Research
%D 1984/10/01
%V 35
%N 5
%P 645-652
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/AR9840645
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/AR9840645 
%X A species-area curve was constructed for buried viable weed seeds in a 5-year-old subterranean clover-annual ryegrass pasture in south-eastern Australia. A soil surface area of about 200 cm2 (to a depth of 10 cm) was required to obtain a representative individual sample (i.e. a replicate) of the number of taxa in the soil seed bank, whereas a combined area of about 1000 cm2 was required for adequacy within any treatment. The total number of buried viable seeds of all species combined was distributed spatially in a more-or-less uniform manner. This suggests that a sample whose size is sufficient for determination of species diversity of buried seeds is equally adequate for measuring buried seed density. 
