Tree fern trunks facilitate seedling regeneration in a productive lowland temperate rain forest

Oecologia

Volumn 155, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 325-335

  Gaxiola, Aurora ^a   Burrows, Larry E ^b   Coomes, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Facilitation; Keystone species; New Zealand; Quantile regression

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); EPIPHYTE; FERN; FOREST FLOOR; KEYSTONE SPECIES; PHOTOSYNTHETICALLY ACTIVE RADIATION; PLANT COMMUNITY; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION SIZE; RAINFOREST; REGENERATION; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; TEMPERATE FOREST;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DARKNESS; ECOSYSTEM; FERN; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; NEW ZEALAND; PHYSIOLOGY; SEEDLING; SYMBIOSIS; TREE;

DARKNESS; ECOSYSTEM; FERNS; NEW ZEALAND; SEEDLING; SYMBIOSIS; TREES;

AUSTRALASIA; NEW ZEALAND;

CERVIDAE; CYATHEA SMITHII; DICKSONIA SQUARROSA; FILICOPHYTA;

EID: 39249084635     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-007-0915-8     Document Type: Article

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