Spatial relationships between plant litter, gopher disturbance and vegetation at different stages of old-field succession

Applied Vegetation Science

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 53-62

  Sandor B ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Functional group; Information theory; Minnesota old field; Pairwise association; Patch dynamics; Randomization test; Spatial scaling

Indexed keywords

GEOMYS BUSARIUS;

EID: 0034945939     PISSN: 14022001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1654-109x.2001.tb00234.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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