Fig. 5.

Potential species transitions between two ‘environmental situations’—increasing (i.e. flooding) and decreasing (i.e. drawdown) water periods in a wetland. Solid lines represent potential transitions within an environmental situation; dashed lines represent transitions between environmental situations. The species states are: s = present as long-lived propagules in a persistent seedbank; a = mature adults; and e = locally extinct. If establishment is dependent on dispersal from another site, adult populations are indicated in parentheses. Other abbreviations are explained in Fig. 4 (from Finlayson et al., 1990b).