Population viability with fire in Eryngium cuneifolium: Deciphering a decade of demographic data

Ecological Monographs

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 79-99

  Menges, Eric S ^a   Quintana Ascencio, Pedro F ^a,b  

^a ARCHBOLD BIOLOGICAL STATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Disturbance; Elasticity; Eryngium cuneifolium; Fire; Florida rosemary scrub; Lake Wales Ridge; Matrix models

Indexed keywords

FECUNDITY; FIRE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MODELING; POPULATION VIABILITY ANALYSIS;

FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; HIGHLANDS COUNTY; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

ERYNGIUM; ERYNGIUM CUNEIFOLIUM; HYPERICUM; HYPERICUM CUMULICOLA; ROSMARINUS OFFICINALIS;

EID: 0842298475     PISSN: 00129615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/03-4029     Document Type: Article

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