Seedling establishment of vascular epiphytes on isolated and enclosed forest trees in an Andean landscape, Ecuador

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 17, Issue 13, 2008, Pages 3195-3207

  Werner, Florian A ^a   Gradstein, S Robbert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Desiccation stress; Dispersal; Diversity; Human disturbance; Microclimate; Recruitment; Species richness; Tropical montane moist forest

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; COLONIZATION; DESICCATION; DICOTYLEDON; DISPERSAL; EPIPHYTE; EXTREMOPHILE; FERN; FOREST MANAGEMENT; ISOLATED POPULATION; MICROCLIMATE; MONTANE FOREST; MORTALITY; PERSISTENCE; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; SURVIVAL; TAXONOMY;

ANDES; ECUADOR; SOUTH AMERICA;

BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES; FILICOPHYTA; PIPTOCOMA;

EID: 55149094966     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-008-9421-5     Document Type: Article

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