Experimental separation of resource quantity from temporal variability: Seedling responses to water pulses

Oecologia

Volumn 141, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 346-352

  Lundholm, Jeremy T ^a,b   Larson, Douglas W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b SAINT MARY S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fluctuations; Germination; Heterogeneity; Limestone pavement; Recruitment

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CARBONATE; WATER;

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; GERMINATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RECRUITMENT; SEEDLING; SPECIES RICHNESS; WATER AVAILABILITY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; CANADA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; DRUG EFFECT; ECOSYSTEM; GERMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEEDLING; SOIL; TIME;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; CALCIUM CARBONATE; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ECOSYSTEM; GERMINATION; ONTARIO; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEEDLING; SOIL; TIME FACTORS; WATER;

EID: 6044229773     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-003-1454-6     Document Type: Article

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