Predicting mechanisms across scales: Amplified effects of abiotic constraints on the recruitment of yew Taxus baccata

Ecography

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 993-1000

  Sanz, Rubén ^a   Pulido, Fernando ^a   Nogués Bravo, David ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

^b MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONIFEROUS TREE; PREDICTION; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); REGENERATION; SEEDLING; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WATER AVAILABILITY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

TAXUS; TAXUS BACCATA;

EID: 68549093973     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2009.05627.x     Document Type: Article

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