Japanese maple (Acer palmatum var. Matsumurae, aceraceae) recruitment patterns: Seeds, seedlings, and saplings in relation to conspecific adult neighbors

American Journal of Botany

Volumn 84, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1294-1300

  Wada, Naoya ^a   Ribbens, Eric ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acer palmatum; Aceraceae; Recruitment; Seed rain; Spatial distributions

Indexed keywords

RECRUITMENT; SPATIAL PATTERN;

JAPAN;

ACER; ACER PALMATUM; ACER PALMATUM MATSUMURAE; ACERACEAE; CONIFEROPHYTA; SAPINDACEAE;

EID: 0030861984     PISSN: 00029122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2446055     Document Type: Article

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