Importance of microhabitat and acorn burial on Quercus ilex early recruitment: Non-additive effects on multiple demographic processes

Plant Ecology

Volumn 172, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 287-297

  Gómez, José M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Environmental heterogeneity; Establishment; Non additive effects; Plant demography; Postdispersal seed predation; Quercus ilex; Seed burial

Indexed keywords

AFFORESTATION; DEMOGRAPHY; EMERGENCE; GERMINATION; MICROHABITAT; SEED BURIAL; SEED PREDATION;

ILEX; QUERCUS; QUERCUS ILEX;

EID: 3442890028     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:VEGE.0000026327.60991.f9     Document Type: Article

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