Constraints on the assembly of cliff communities at the seedling stage

Ecoscience

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 336-344

  Booth, B D ^a   Larson, D W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Establishment; Niagara escarpment; Thuja occidentalis

Indexed keywords

CLIFF; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; PLANT COMMUNITY; ROOTING; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT;

CANADA; NIAGARA ESCARPMENT; ONTARIO;

BETULA ALLEGHANIENSIS; BETULA PAPYRIFERA; LARIX LARICINA; PICEA GLAUCA; PINUS STROBUS; THUJA OCCIDENTALIS;

EID: 0033817676     PISSN: 11956860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/11956860.2000.11682603     Document Type: Article

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