Fern community assembly: The roles of chance and the environment at local and intermediate scales

Ecology

Volumn 86, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 2473-2486

  Karst, J ^a,b   Gilbert, B ^a   Lechowicz, M J ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dispersal limitation; Ferns; Fine scale; Mesoscale; Neutral theory; Niche; Partial ordinations; Pteridophyte; Spatial structure

Indexed keywords

DISPERSAL; FERN; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

FILICOPHYTA; POLYPODIACEAE; PTERIDOPHYTA;

EID: 23944512580     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/04-1420     Document Type: Article

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