Changing the gap dynamics paradigm: Vegetative regeneration control on forest response tO disturbance

Ecological Monographs

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 331-347

  Dietze, Michael C ^a,b   Clark, James S ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian statistics; Damaged trees; Demography; Individual effects; Piedmont; Recruitment limitation; Southern Appalachians; Sprouting; Succession; USA; Vegetative reproduction

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; GAP DYNAMICS; HETEROGENEITY; MORTALITY; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); REGENERATION; REPRODUCTION; SUCCESSION; UNDERSTORY;

APPALACHIANS; NORTH AMERICA; PIEDMONT [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 63849340452     PISSN: 00129615     EISSN: 15577015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/07-0271.1     Document Type: Article

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