Relationships between vegetation and seed bank in sand pits: Effects of different restoration approaches and successional age

Questions Our study examined the relationships between the seed bank and above‐ground vegetation in spontaneously revegetated and forestry‐reclaimed sand pits. We asked the following questions: (a) What is the composition of the seed bank and above‐ground vegetation? (b) How do they develop over the course of succession within the two different restoration approaches? (c) What is the representation of target and undesirable species in the seed...