Long-distance dispersal of plants

Science

Volumn 313, Issue 5788, 2006, Pages 786-788

  Nathan, Ran ^a,b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEMS; POPULATION STATISTICS; RANDOM PROCESSES; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

"NONSTANDARD" MECHANISMS; DISTRIBUTION OF DISPERSAL DISTANCES; LONG-DISTANCE DISPERSAL (LDD); STANDARD DISPERSAL VECTORS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

DISPERSAL; PLANT; STOCHASTICITY;

ADAPTATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA EXTRACTION; EVOLUTION; LONG DISTANCE DISPERSAL; NATURAL POPULATION; NONHUMAN; PLANT; PLANT REPRODUCTION; POPULATION DISPERSAL; POPULATION MOVEMENT PATTERN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STANDARD; STOCHASTIC MODEL; TREND STUDY;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANTS; POLLEN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PROBABILITY; SEEDS; SELECTION (GENETICS); STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; WATER MOVEMENTS; WEATHER; WIND;

EID: 33747125401     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1124975     Document Type: Review

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