Role of nurse plants in Araucaria Forest expansion over grassland in south Brazil

Austral Ecology

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 520-528

  Duarte, Leandro Da S ^a   Dos Santos, Melina M G ^a   Hartz, Sandra M ^a   Pillar, Valério Depatta ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Araucaria Forest; Campos grassland; Facilitation; Nurse plant; Vertebrate seed dispersal

Indexed keywords

COLONIZATION; GRASSLAND; NURSE PLANT; SEEDLING; TREE;

BRAZIL; RIO GRANDE DO SUL; SOUTH AMERICA;

ARAUCARIA; ARAUCARIA ANGUSTIFOLIA; AVES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33745180486     PISSN: 14429985     EISSN: 14429993     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9993.2006.01602.x     Document Type: Article

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