Tree ferns in the interior and at the edge of a Mexican cloud forest remnant: Spore germination and sporophyte survival and establishment

Biotropica

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 83-88

  Bernabe, N ^a   Williams Linera, G ^a   Palacios Rios, M ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Alsophila firma; Cloud forest; Forest edge; Lophosoria quadripinnata; Sphaeropteris horrida; Spore germination; Survival; Transplant experiments; Tree ferns

Indexed keywords

FERN; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOREST EDGE; GERMINATION; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; SURVIVAL;

MEXICO;

ALSOPHILA FIRMA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES; FILICOPHYTA; LOPHOSORIA; LOPHOSORIA QUADRIPINNATA; PTERIDOPHYTA; SPHAEROPTERIS; SPHAEROPTERIS HORRIDA;

EID: 0032783359     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.1999.tb00118.x     Document Type: Article

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