Forest encroachment into a Californian grassland: Examining the simultaneous effects of facilitation and competition on tree seedling recruitment

Oecologia

Volumn 148, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 464-474

  Kennedy, Peter G ^a   Sousa, Wayne P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Facilitation; Fog precipitation; Grassland; Lithocarpus densiflora; Pseudotsuga menziesii; Seedling establishment; Woody plant encroachment

Indexed keywords

WATER;

COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); EVAPORATION; FIELD SURVEY; FOG; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GRASSLAND; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SEEDLING; SOIL MOISTURE; TEMPERATURE;

ARTICLE; DOUGLAS FIR; ECOSYSTEM; FAGACEAE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGY; POACEAE; SEEDLING; SOIL; TREE; UNITED STATES;

CALIFORNIA; ECOSYSTEM; FAGACEAE; POACEAE; PSEUDOTSUGA; SEEDLING; SOIL; TREES; WATER;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

CONIFEROPHYTA; LITHOCARPUS; LITHOCARPUS DENSIFLORUS; PSEUDOTSUGA; PSEUDOTSUGA MENZIESII;

EID: 33744504475     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-006-0382-7     Document Type: Article

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