Synergistic responses of oak, pine and shrub seedlings to edge environments and drought in a fragmented tropical highland oak forest, Oaxaca, Mexico

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 192, Issue 2-3, 2004, Pages 313-334

  Asbjornsen, Heidi ^a   Vogt, Kristiina A ^b   Ashton, Mark S ^c  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c Yale School of the Environment   (United States)

Author keywords

Dodonea viscosa; Drought; Dry tropical highlands; Habitat fragmentation; Mexico; Oak forests; Pinus oaxacana; Q. castanea; Quercus acutifolia; Regeneration; Rhus virens

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; DROUGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FORESTRY; TROPICS; VEGETATION;

MICROCLIMATE CONDITIONS; PHENOLOGICAL PLASTICITY; PRE-DRAWN WATER POTENTIAL; SHRUB SEEDLINGS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

DROUGHT; EDGE EFFECT; GROWTH RESPONSE; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; REGENERATION; SEEDLING; SYNERGISM;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA; OAXACA;

CASTANEA; HEDERA; QUERCUS; RHUS; RHUS VIRENS;

EID: 1942510629     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2004.01.035     Document Type: Article

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