Modelling seed dispersal to predict seedling recruitment: Recolonization dynamics in a plantation forest

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 203, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 464-474

  Sagnard, Fabrice ^a,b   Pichot, Christian ^a   Dreyfus, Philippe ^a   Jordano, Pedro ^b   Fady, Bruno ^a  

^a French National Institute for Agriculture   (France)

^b DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Abies alba; Fagus sylvatica; Inverse modelling; Seed dispersal; Seed trap; Seedling recruitment

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOLOGY; FORESTRY;

INVERSE MODELING; SEED DISPERSAL; SEED TRAP; SEEDLING RECRUITMENT;

SEED;

CONIFEROUS TREE; DECIDUOUS TREE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FOREST DYNAMICS; PLANTATION FORESTRY; PREDICTION; RECOLONIZATION; RECRUITMENT; SEED DISPERSAL; SEED PRODUCTION; SEED RAIN; SEEDLING;

ABIES ALBA; FAGUS SYLVATICA; FORESTRY; SEEDS;

ABIES; ABIES ALBA; FAGUS; FAGUS SYLVATICA; PICEA; PICEA ABIES;

EID: 34047258831     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2006.12.008     Document Type: Article

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