Constraints on the assembly of cliff communities at the seed bank stage

Ecoscience

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 326-335

  Booth, B D ^a   Larson, D W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Assembly rules; Niagara Escarpment; Seed dispersal; Thuja occidentalis

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY RULE; CLIFF; LIMITING FACTOR; PLANT COMMUNITY; SEED BANK;

CANADA; NIAGARA ESCARPMENT; ONTARIO;

EID: 0033812472     PISSN: 11956860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/11956860.2000.11682602     Document Type: Article

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