Secondary seed dispersal and its role in landscape organization

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Thompson, Sally ^a   Katul, Gabriel ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; BIOMASS; VEGETATION;

ANISOTROPIC EFFECTS; BANDED VEGETATIONS; DIFFUSIVE REPRESENTATIONS; DISPERSAL KERNELS; DOWNSLOPE; FIELD OBSERVATIONS; IN FIELDS; KEY POINTS; MODEL RESULTS; OVERLAND FLOWS; SEED DISPERSALS; SLOPE WATERS; UPWARD MOVEMENTS;

SEED;

ADVECTION; DIFFUSION; LANDSCAPE; MIGRATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEED DISPERSAL; WATER FLOW;

EID: 62749155368     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL036044     Document Type: Article

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