Distinguishing the roles of dispersal in diversity maintenance and in diversity limitation

Folia Geobotanica

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 45-52

  Vandvik, Vigdis ^a,b   Goldberg, Deborah E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Community diversity; Components of diversity; Local diversity; Seed addition

Indexed keywords

DISPERSAL; PLANT COMMUNITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

EID: 15844367469     PISSN: 12119520     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02803043     Document Type: Article

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