The hare, the tortoise and the crocodile: The ecology of angiosperm dominance, conifer persistence and fern filtering

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 93, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 918-935

  Coomes, David A ^a   Allen, Robert B ^b   Bentley, Warren A ^a   Burrows, Larry E ^b   Canham, Charles D ^c   Fagan, Laura ^b   Forsyth, David M ^d   Gaxiola Alcantar, Aurora ^a   Parfitt, Roger L ^b   Ruscoe, Wendy A ^b   Wardle, David A ^b   Wilson, Deborah J ^b   Wright, Elaine F ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^c CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES   (United States)

^d ARTHUR RYLAH INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^e DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Chronosequence; Competition; Forest; Light transmission; Microsite; Nutrients; PAR; Podocarpaceae; Regeneration; Resource; Retrogressive; Safe sites

Indexed keywords

ANGIOSPERM; CONIFEROUS TREE; DRAINAGE; FERN; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PERSISTENCE; REGENERATION; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; SHADING; SOIL DRAINAGE;

AUSTRALASIA; NEW ZEALAND;

ALLIGATOR; CONIFERALES; CONIFEROPHYTA; CROCODYLIDAE (ALL CROCODILES); FILICOPHYTA; LEPUS; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; TESTUDINIDAE;

EID: 33644579815     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: 13652745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2005.01012.x     Document Type: Article

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