The role of seed rain in determining the assembly of a cliff community

Journal of Vegetation Science

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 657-668

  Booth, Barbara D ^a   Larson, Douglas W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Assembly rule; Correlation; Discriminant analysis; Seed dispersal spectra; Species pool; Thuja occidentalis

Indexed keywords

CLIFF; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; PLANT; SEED RAIN;

CANADA; NIAGARA; ONTARIO;

THUJA OCCIDENTALIS;

EID: 0032458983     PISSN: 11009233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3237284     Document Type: Article

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