Abiotic constraints on the establishment of Quercus seedlings in grassland

Global Change Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 266-275

  Danner, Brett T ^a   Knapp, Alan K ^a  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gallery forests; Quercus; Seedling; Tallgrass prairie

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FOREST; GLOBAL CHANGE; GRASSLAND; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

QUERCUS; QUERCUS MACROCARPA;

EID: 0037293543     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2486.2003.00574.x     Document Type: Article

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