Edge effect on acorn removal and oak seedling survival in Mexican lower montane forest fragments

New Forests

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 487-495

  Guzmán Guzmán, Jair ^a   Williams Linera, Guadalupe ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Cloud forest; Ecological succession; Edge effect; Montane forest; Quercus; Seed dispersal; Seed predation

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; FORESTRY; PLANTS (BOTANY); VEGETATION;

CLOUD FOREST; ECOLOGICAL SUCCESSION; EDGE EFFECT; MONTANE FOREST; QUERCUS; SEED DISPERSAL; SEED PREDATION;

SEED;

EDGE EFFECT; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; MONTANE FOREST; SEED; SURVIVAL; VEGETATION;

BIODIVERSITY; PLANTS; SEEDS;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA;

QUERCUS; QUERCUS GERMANA;

EID: 33646571492     PISSN: 01694286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11056-005-2015-0     Document Type: Article

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