Population dynamics and clonal growth of Spartocytisus supranubius (Fabaceae), a dominant shrub in the alpine zone of Tenerife, Canary Islands

Plant Ecology

Volumn 186, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 97-108

  Kyncl, Tomáš ^a   Suda, Jan ^b   Wild, Jan ^a   Wildová, Radka ^a   Herben, Tomáš ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (Czech Republic)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Aerial photographs; Dendrochronology; Isozymes; Population projection matrix; Stable size structure

Indexed keywords

CLONAL GROWTH; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; GROWTH RATE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SHRUB;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CANARY ISLANDS; EURASIA; EUROPE; MACARONESIA; SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE [(PRV) CANARY ISLANDS]; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN; TENERIFE;

FABACEAE; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; SPARTOCYTISUS SUPRANUBIUS;

EID: 33747059266     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-006-9115-6     Document Type: Article

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