Facilitative effects of a sand dune shrub on species growing beneath the shrub canopy

Oecologia

Volumn 124, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 138-148

  Shumway, Scott W ^a  

^a WHEATON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ammophila breviligulata; Facilitation; Myrica pensylvanica; Sand dune ecology; Solidago sempervirens

Indexed keywords

DUNE; FACILITATION; MICROHABITAT; PLANT COMMUNITY; SHRUB; SUCCESSION;

AMMOPHILA BREVILIGULATA; MYRICA PENSYLVANICA; SOLIDAGO SEMPERVIRENS;

EID: 0033854792     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004420050033     Document Type: Article

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