Environmental factors and survival strategies of annual plant species in the Negev Desert, Israel

Agriculture & Biology

• Israel 73%
• deserts 67%
• buried seeds 46%
• environmental factors 45%
• seeds 37%
• seed maturation 35%
• rain 32%
• germination 30%
• plasticity 25%
• photoperiod 22%
• after-ripening 19%
• seed predation 17%
• seedlings 17%
• plant age 16%
• seed size 15%
• seed dispersal 15%
• Spermatophytina 15%
• seed development 14%
• soil water content 14%
• soil 14%
• dust 14%
• storage temperature 14%
• drought tolerance 13%
• seed yield 13%
• plant development 12%
• relative humidity 12%
• seed germination 12%
• life cycle (organisms) 11%
• history 10%
• flowering 10%
• duration 8%
• animals 5%
• temperature 5%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• annual plant 100%
• plant species 62%
• seed 61%
• desert 58%
• environmental factor 58%
• germination 40%
• seed bank 34%
• maturation 26%
• day length 25%
• plant life 23%
• rain 20%
• seedling 17%
• plasticity 16%
• seed collection 14%
• seed predation 14%
• seed size 13%
• protected species 12%
• seed dispersal 11%
• soil 11%
• ripening 11%
• flowering 10%
• wetting 8%
• tolerance 7%
• relative humidity 7%
• life cycle 7%
• soil water 7%
• drought 6%
• water content 6%
• temperature 6%
• dust 6%
• animal 5%