Wind dispersal of seeds from a forest into a clearing

Ecology

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 595-609

  Greene, D F ^a   Johnson, E A ^b  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Area source dispersal curve; Clearcuts; Micrometeorological dispersal model; Seed dispersal; Seed traps; Small particle dispersal model; Terminal velocity; Wind dispersal; Wind profiles

Indexed keywords

FOREST; FOREST CLEARING; MODELLING; SEED DISPERSAL; WIND DISPERSAL;

EID: 0030418761     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2265633     Document Type: Article

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