Minimum recruitment frequency in plants with episodic recruitment

Oecologia

Volumn 141, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 363-372

  Wiegand, Kerstin ^a   Jeltsch, Florian ^b   Ward, David ^c  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^c STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Acacia; Arid environments; Extinction; Simulation models

Indexed keywords

ARID ENVIRONMENT; EPISODIC EVENT; LOCAL EXTINCTION; POPULATION MODELING; RECRUITMENT;

ACACIA; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLIMATE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DESERT CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; FORECASTING; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISRAEL; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; STATISTICS;

ACACIA; CLIMATE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DESERT CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; FORECASTING; ISRAEL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

ASIA; EURASIA; ISRAEL; MIDDLE EAST; NEGEV; SOUTHERN DISTRICT;

ACACIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 6044276971     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-003-1439-5     Document Type: Article

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