Seed and microsite limitations of recruitment and the impacts of post-dispersal seed predation at the within population level

Plant Ecology

Volumn 192, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 35-44

  Calviño Cancela, María ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Recruitment limitation; Seed availability; Seed addition experiments; Spatial concordance; Spatial heterogeneity; Spatial patterns

Indexed keywords

DUNE; GERMINATION; MICROHABITAT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RECRUITMENT; SEED DISPERSAL; SEED PREDATION; SHRUB; SPATIAL VARIATION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

COREMA ALBUM; ERICACEAE;

EID: 36049010661     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-006-9223-3     Document Type: Article

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