Variation in fleshy fruit fall composition in an island laurel forest of the Canary Islands

Acta Oecologica

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 152-160

  Arévalo, José Ramón ^a   Delgado, Juan Domingo ^a   Fernández Palacios, José María ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Canopy composition; DCA; Forest dynamics; Fruiting phenology

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FRUIT; FRUIT PRODUCTION; PHENOLOGY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SEASONALITY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

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

ILEX; ILEX PERADO; LAURUS; LAURUS AZORICA; MORELLA FAYA; MYRICACEAE;

EID: 34548546267     PISSN: 1146609X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actao.2007.03.014     Document Type: Article

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