Fine-scale spatial patterns of recruitment in red oak (Quercus rubra): What matters most, abiotic or biotic factors?

Ecoscience

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 223-235

  García, Daniel ^a   Houle, Gilles ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Environmental filters; Seed predation; Seedling predation; Seedling recruitment; Spatial autocorrelation; Spatial concordance; Spatial heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RECRUITMENT; SEED PREDATION;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; QUEBEC [CANADA]; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

INSECTA; MURIDAE; QUERCUS; QUERCUS RUBRA; RODENTIA;

EID: 21444431844     PISSN: 11956860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2980/i1195-6860-12-2-223.1     Document Type: Article

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