Temporal patterns in seedling establishment on pocket gopher disturbances

Oecologia

Volumn 138, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 112-121

  Forbis, Tara A ^a,c   Larmore, Jason ^a   Addis, Elizabeth ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b CARLETON COLLEGE   (United States)

^c THE NATURE CONSERVANCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Demography; Germination; Gopher mound; Seed bank; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

DISTURBANCE; GERMINATION; RECRUITMENT; RODENT; SEED BANK; SEEDLING EMERGENCE; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; SURVIVAL;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; GERMINATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PLANT; PLANT SEED; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RODENT; SEEDLING; SURVIVAL;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; GERMINATION; PLANTS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RODENTIA; SEEDLING; SEEDS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALIA; GEOMYIDAE; RODENTIA; SPERMATOPHYTA;

EID: 0842310311     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-003-1404-3     Document Type: Article

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