Regeneration strategies, disturbance and plant interactions as organizers of vegetation spatial patterns in a pine forest

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 971-987

  Mou, Pu ^a   Jones, Robert H ^b   Guo, Dali ^c   Lister, Andrew ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dichanthelium; Forest disturbance; Geostatistics; Myrica cerifera; Pinus elliottii; Plant regeneration; Quercus; Rhus copallina; Spatial heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

DISTURBANCE; NITROGEN; NITROGEN FIXATION; NUTRIENT CYCLING; PLANT COMMUNITY; SUCCESSION;

NORTH AMERICA; SOUTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

DICHANTHELIUM; HEDERA; MORELLA CERIFERA; MYRICACEAE; PINUS ELLIOTTII; PRUNUS; PRUNUS SEROTINA; QUERCUS; RHUS COPALLINA; RUBUS;

EID: 27744588139     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-005-7007-0     Document Type: Review

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