Propagule vs. niche limitation: Untangling the mechanisms behind plant species' distributions

Ecology Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 797-804

  Moore, Kara A ^a   Elmendorf, Sarah C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Generalized additive models; Grasslands; Habitat occupancy; Niche; Propagule limitation; Receiver operating characteristic; Reproductive fitness; Seed limitation; Species distribution models

Indexed keywords

NICHE; PLANT COMMUNITY; PROPAGULE; SEED; SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP;

ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PLANT; PLANT SEED; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; ROC CURVE; SEEDLING;

ECOSYSTEM; PLANTS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; ROC CURVE; SEEDLING; SEEDS;

EID: 33745113796     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2006.00923.x     Document Type: Article

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