Directing spatial patterns of recruitment during an experimental urban woodland reclamation

Ecological Applications

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 174-188

  Robinson, George R ^a   Handel, Steven N ^b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Clonal growth; Dispersal; Experimental reclamation; Nucleation; Safe sites; Seed sources; Spatial pattern; Surrounding landscape

Indexed keywords

HABITAT RESTORATION; NUCLEATION; RECRUITMENT; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SEED DISPERSAL; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; WOODLAND;

NEW JERSEY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0034141253     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(2000)010[0174:DSPORD]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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