The relative importance of factors affecting age-specific seedling survival of two co-occurring oak species in southern California

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 255, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 3063-3074

  Tyler, Claudia M ^a   Davis, Frank W ^a   Mahall, Bruce E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Browsing; CART; Classification and regression tree; Herbivory; Inter annual variation; Limiting factors; Mediterranean; Oak recruitment; Quercus agrifolia; Quercus lobata; Seed predation

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY;

LIMITING FACTORS; OAK RECRUITMENT; REGRESSION TREE; SEED PREDATION;

FORESTRY;

AGE CLASS; ANNUAL VARIATION; BROWSING; COEXISTENCE; DECIDUOUS FOREST; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GRAZING; HERBIVORY; LIMITING FACTOR; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); RODENT; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; SURVIVAL;

ECOLOGY; FORESTRY; QUERCUS;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; SANTA BARBARA COUNTY; UNITED STATES;

BOS; CERVIDAE; MAMMALIA; QUERCUS; QUERCUS AGRIFOLIA; QUERCUS LOBATA; RODENTIA;

EID: 41949113184     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2008.01.073     Document Type: Article

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