Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ491950
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1994
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ISSN: ISSN-0002-7685
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Using Soil Seed Banks to Bring Plant Communities into the Classroom.
Pascoe, Frank
American Biology Teacher, v56 n7 p429-32 Oct 1994
Describes an alternative to studying plant community composition and dynamics. Suggests that teachers and students collect soil samples containing buried seeds (the seed bank), germinate the seeds in the laboratory, and analyze community dynamics through the composition of the seed bank. (ZWH)
Descriptors: Ecology, High Schools, Higher Education, Plants (Botany), Science Activities, Science Education
Publication Type: Guides - Classroom - Teacher; Journal Articles
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Audience: Teachers; Practitioners
Language: English
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