Migration of herbaceous plant species across ancient-recent forest ecotones in central Belgium

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 87, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 629-638

  Bossuyt, Beatrijs ^a   Hermy, Martin ^a   Deckers, Jozef ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Colonization pattern; Historical ecology; Reforestation; Secondary succession; Seed dispersal; Seedling establishment; Species richness

Indexed keywords

BELGIUM; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; FOREST; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MIGRATION; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION;

AGE CLASS; COLONIZATION; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; MIGRATION; VEGETATION COVER;

BELGIUM; MEERDAAL FOREST COMPLEX;

ANEMONE NEMOROSA; CONVALLARIA MAJALIS; LAMIUM GALEOBDOLON; POLYGONATUM MULTIFLORUM;

EID: 0032763494     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2745.1999.00379.x     Document Type: Article

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