Constraints on the establishment of plants along a fluctuating water-depth gradient

Ecology

Volumn 82, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 2216-2232

  Seabloom, E W ^a   Moloney, K A ^a   Van der Valk, A G ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ECOLOGICAL ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Cellular automaton; Community; Dispersal; Environmental gradient; Establishment constraints; Logistic regression; Seed bank; Spatial model; Spatial pattern; Water depth; Wetlands; Zonation

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL MODELING; SEED BANK; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; WETLAND;

EID: 0034886383     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2001)082[2216:COTEOP]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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