Small-scale Environmental Heterogeneity and Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Seedling Establishment in a Semiarid Degraded Ecosystem

Ecosystems

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 630-643

  Maestre, Fernando T ^a   Cortina, Jordi ^a   Bautista, Susana ^a,b   Bellot, Juan ^a   Vallejo, Ramon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

^b FUNDACIÓN CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS AMBIENTALES DEL MEDITERRÁNEO CEAM   (Spain)

Author keywords

Logistic regression; Pistacia lentiscus; Principal components analyses (PCA); Restoration; Semiarid ecosystems; Soil heterogeneity; Spatial analysis by distance indices (SADIE); Surface soil properties; Variation partitioning

Indexed keywords

LAND DEGRADATION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; REVEGETATION; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL-VEGETATION INTERACTION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

PISTACIA; PISTACIA LENTISCUS;

EID: 0345393836     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-002-0222-5     Document Type: Article

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