Discordance in spatial patterns of white pine (Pinus strobus) size-classes in a patchy near-boreal forest

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 280-291

  Dovčiak, Martin ^a,b   Frelich, Lee E ^a   Reich, Peter B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b NONE   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Neighbourhood effects; Patch dynamics; Plant demography; Point pattern analysis; Spatial pattern; White pine

Indexed keywords

BOTTLENECK; PINUS STROBUS; PLANT ADAPTATION; PLANT DENSITY; PLANT ECOLOGY; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT HEIGHT; PLANT REGENERATION; SEEDLING; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; UNITED STATES;

AGE STRUCTURE; BOREAL FOREST; RECRUITMENT; SIZE STRUCTURE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

UNITED STATES;

PINUS STROBUS;

EID: 0343290337     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2745.2001.00545.x     Document Type: Article

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