Structure and regeneration patterns of the Juniperus excelsa Bieb. stands in the central part of the Nestos valley in the northeast of Greece, in the context of anthropogenic disturbances and nurse plant facilitation

Ecological Research

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 713-723

  Milios, Elias ^a   Pipinis, Elias ^a   Petrou, Petros ^a   Akritidou, Sofia ^b   Smiris, Paulos ^c   Aslanidou, Maria ^c  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

^b Dioikitirio   (Greece)

^c ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Disturbance; Facilitation; Juniperus excelsa Bieb.; Shade; Stand development

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CONIFEROUS TREE; DISTURBANCE; FACILITATION; GROWTH; NURSE PLANT; REGENERATION; SEEDLING; SHADE TOLERANCE; STAND STRUCTURE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; MESTA VALLEY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

JUNIPERUS; JUNIPERUS EXCELSA;

EID: 36148990617     PISSN: 09123814     EISSN: 14401703     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11284-006-0310-7     Document Type: Article

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