Recruitment in a mediterranean annual plant community: Seed bank, emergence, litter, and intra- and inter-specific interactions

Oikos

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 485-495

  Rebollo, S ^a   Perez Camacho L ^a   Garcia de Juan M T ^a   Rey Benayas, J M ^a   Gomez Sal A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; INTRASPECIFIC INTERACTION; LITTER; PLANT COMMUNITY; RECRUITMENT; SEED BANK; SEEDLING EMERGENCE;

EID: 0035712986     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0706.2001.950314.x     Document Type: Article

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