Predicting spatial patterns of plant recruitment using animal-displacement kernels

PLoS ONE

Volumn 2, Issue 10, 2007, Pages

  Santamaría, Luis ^a   Rodríguez Pérez, Javier ^a   Larrinaga, Asier R ^a   Pias, Beatriz ^b  

^a INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD REY JUAN CARLOS   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL FOOD; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAPHNE; DISPERSION; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; FRUGIVORE; GERMINATION; HABITAT STRUCTURE; KERNEL METHOD; LIZARD; NONHUMAN; PLANT DENSITY; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT REGENERATION; PLANT SEED; PREDICTION; PROBABILITY; SCRUB; SEED DISPERSAL; SOIL STRUCTURE; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; VELOCITY; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PINE; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME;

ANIMALIA; DAPHNE; PODARCIS LILFORDI; SQUAMATA;

ANIMALS; ANISOTROPY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; GERMINATION; LIZARDS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PINUS; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; PROBABILITY; SEEDS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 41649117726     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0001008     Document Type: Article

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