Dispersal potential in plant communities depends on environmental conditions

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 92, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 767-777

  Ozinga, Wim A ^a,b   Bekker, Renée M ^c   Schaminée, Joop H J ^b   Van Groenendael, Jan M ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Ecoinformatics; Functional traits; Polychory; Trait complementarity; Trait environment linkages

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; PLANT COMMUNITY; SEED DISPERSAL;

AVES; MAMMALIA;

EID: 5444248176     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0022-0477.2004.00916.x     Document Type: Article

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