Patterns of woody plant abundance, recruitment, mortality, and growth in a 65 year chronosequence of old-fields

Plant Ecology

Volumn 145, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 267-279

  Lawson, Dan ^a   Inouye, Richard S ^a   Huntly, Nancy ^c   Carson, Walter P ^b  

^a IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Initial floristic; Relay floristics; Resource competition; Succession

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; FOREST EDGE; GROWTH; MORTALITY; RECRUITMENT; SUCCESSION; WOODY PLANT;

UNITED STATES;

POPULUS TREMULOIDES; QUERCUS MACROCARPA; QUERCUS RUBRA;

EID: 0033399727     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009873127360     Document Type: Article

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