Seed shadows, survival and recruitment: How simple mechanisms lead to dynamics of population recruitment curves

Oikos

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 320-330

  Barot, Sébastien ^a   Gignoux, Jacques ^a   Menaut, J C ^a  

^a ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RECRUITMENT; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; SURVIVAL;

BORASSUS AETHIOPUM;

EID: 0032840194     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3546449     Document Type: Article

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