Annual plant communities are important components of the biodiversity found in protected area in Egypt. These plant communities develop, after heavy rainfall episodes, a phenomenon locally known as the “blooming of the desert”. Although the minimum rainfall thresholds for these plants to emerge are relatively well known, little is known about their seed banks, its composition, dynamics and variation. This work aims to fill important information gaps concerning soil seed banks that play in the recovery and possible restoration of degraded arid protected area. This was done through investigating the relationship between aboveground vegetation and soil seed bank dynamics.