Environmental heterogeneity, bird-mediated directed dispersal, and oak woodland dynamics in Mediterranean Spain

Ecological Monographs

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 77-97

  Purves, Drew W ^a   Zavala, Miguel A ^b   Ogle, Kiona ^a   Prieto, Fernando ^b   Rey Benayas, José M ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Climate change; Climate envelope; Corvids; Dispersal limitation; Garrulus; Holm oak; Iberian peninsular; Incidence function; Patch model; Species migration; Zoochory

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; EVERGREEN TREE; FECUNDITY; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HETEROGENEITY; MIGRATION; PASSERINE; SEED DISPERSAL; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; WOODLAND; ZOOCHORY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; IBERIAN PENINSULA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

AVES; CORVIDA; GARRULUS; ILEX; QUERCUS; QUERCUS COCCIFERA; QUERCUS FAGINEA; QUERCUS ILEX;

EID: 34247153807     PISSN: 00129615     EISSN: 15577015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/05-1923     Document Type: Article

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