Vegetation resilience to mega-drought along a typical floodplain gradient of the southern Murray-Darling Basin, Australia

摘要

Questions: How diverse and resilient is vegetation following a decade of extreme drought along a typical floodplain gradient of semi-arid south-eastern Australia? How do mechanisms of resilience (i.e. persistence and soil seed banks) vary between major plant groups and spatially with respect to habitat type and position along a flood frequency gradient?