Intraspecific variation in sapling mortality and growth predicts geographic variation in forest composition

Ecological Monographs

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 181-201

  Kork, Richard K ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Base cations; Calcium in soils; Forest communities; Forest dynamics; Individual based models; Jabowa foret; Landscape ecology; Liebig's law of the minimum; Oak transition Northern hardwood forests; Sapling growth; Sapling mortality; Shade tolerance; Sortie

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; FOREST; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; GROWTH; MORTALITY; SAPLING;

USA, CONNECTICUT; USA, MICHIGAN;

ACER SACCHARUM; ACERACEAE; FAGACEAE; FAGUS GRANDIFOLIA; FRAXINUS AMERICANA; OLEACEAE;

EID: 0030390672     PISSN: 00129615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2963474     Document Type: Article

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