A multi-scale test for dispersal filters in an island plant community

Ecography

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 552-560

  Burns, Kevin C ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLANT COMMUNITY; SEED DISPERSAL;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

AVES; COLUMBIA (ANGIOSPERM); MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

EID: 23144463766     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0906-7590.2005.04221.x     Document Type: Article

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