Nurse plants vs. nurse objects: Effects of woody plants and rocky cavities on the recruitment of the Pilosocereus leucocephalus columnar cactus

Annals of Botany

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 175-185

  Munguía Rosas, Miguel Angel ^a   Sosa, Vinicio J ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Columnar cactus; Facilitation; Nurse object; Nurse plant; Pilosocereus leucocephalus; Plant recruitment; Rocky cavities; Seed seedling conflicts

Indexed keywords

CACTUS; GERMINATION; MICROHABITAT; NURSE PLANT; RECRUITMENT; SEED; SEEDLING; SURVIVORSHIP; WOODY PLANT;

ARTICLE; CACTACEAE; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; GERMINATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT SEED; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEEDLING; SOIL;

CACTACEAE; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; GERMINATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEEDLING; SEEDS; SOIL;

CACTACEAE; PILOSOCEREUS;

EID: 37249070247     PISSN: 03057364     EISSN: 10958290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcm302     Document Type: Article

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