Are plant populations in fragmented habitats recruitment limited? Tests with an Amazonian herb

Ecology

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 932-947

  Bruna, Emilio M ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Amazon; Elasticity analyses; Heliconia acuminata; Lambda; Matrix models; Plant demography; Recruitment limitation; Seed dispersal; Source sink

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHY; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HERB; LOCAL EXTINCTION; POPULATION DECLINE; RECRUITMENT; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT;

AMAZONIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

HELICONIA; HELICONIA ACUMINATA;

EID: 0041313833     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2003)084[0932:APPIFH]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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