Safe sites, seed supply, and the recruitment function in plant populations

Ecology

Volumn 90, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2129-2138

  Duncan, Richard P ^a   Diez, Jeffrey M ^a   Sullivan, Jon J ^a   Wangen, Steven ^a   Miller, Alice L ^a,b  

^a LINCOLN UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b National Park Service   (United States)

Author keywords

Beverton Holt function; Establishment limitation; Hieracium lepidulum; Microsite; Plant recruitment; Recruitment function; Safe site availability; Seed limitation; Seed addition experiments; Self thinning

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL METHOD; GERMINATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; PLANT; POPULATION DENSITY; SEED DISPERSAL; SEEDLING;

ARTICLE; ASTERACEAE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; PLANT SEED;

ASTERACEAE; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANTS; SEEDS;

HIERACIUM LEPIDULUM;

EID: 68149117566     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/08-1436.1     Document Type: Article

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