Colonization by annual plants of an experimentally altered desert landscape: Source-sink relationships

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 86, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 804-814

  Boeken, Bertrand ^a   Shachak, Moshe ^a,b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Assemblage dynamics; Desert shrubland; Landscape mosaic; Negev; Sink function

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; DENSITY; DISPERSAL; PLANT; PLANT GROWTH; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEED;

COLONIZATION; DESERT; DISPERSAL; PATCHINESS; PLANT COMMUNITY;

ISRAEL; NEGEV DESERT;

EID: 0031766598     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2745.1998.8650804.x     Document Type: Article

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