Constraints of seed size on plant distribution and abundance

Ecology

Volumn 81, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 2149-2155

  Guo, Qinfeng ^a,d   Brown, James H ^a   Valone, Thomas J ^b   Kachman, Stephen D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chihuahuan Desert, Arizona; Constraint envelope; Dispersal; England, northern; Plant abundance; Plant distribution; Seed bank; Seed size; Triangular envelope

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; SEED BANK; SEED SIZE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION;

ARIZONA; CHIHUAHUAN DESERT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033850427     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2000)081[2149:COSSOP]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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