Seed dispersal and recruitment limitation across spatial scales in temperate forest fragments

Ecology

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 507-518

  McEuen, Amy B ^a,b   Curran, Lisa M ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b WILKES UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Yale University   (United States)

Author keywords

Acer rubrum; Betula alleghaniensis; Betula papyrifera; Dispersal vector; Forest fragmentation; Landscape ecology; Seed dispersion patterns; Seed limitation; Seed mass; Seedling recruitment; Spatial recruitment limitation; Tsuga canadensis

Indexed keywords

HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; LIMITING FACTOR; RECRUITMENT; SEED DISPERSAL; SEED RAIN; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATE FOREST;

MICHIGAN; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ACER; ACER NEGUNDO; ACER RUBRUM; ANIMALIA; BETULA; BETULA ALLEGHANIENSIS; BETULA PAPYRIFERA; CARPINUS; CARPINUS CAROLINIANA; CELASTRUS; CELASTRUS SCANDENS; ELEAGANUS UMBELLATA; FAGUS; FAGUS GRANDIFOLIA; FRAXINUS; MALVACEAE; OSTRYA; OSTRYA VIRGINIANA; PRUNUS; PRUNUS AVIUM; TILIA; TILIA AMERICANA; TSUGA; TSUGA CANADENSIS; ULMUS; ULMUS AMERICANA;

EID: 1542289076     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/03-4006     Document Type: Article

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