Habitat fragmentation and altered fire regime create trade-offs for an obligate seeding shrub

Ecology

Volumn 91, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1114-1123

  Regan, Helen M ^a   Crookston, John B ^b   Swab, Rebecca ^a   Franklin, Janet ^b   Lawson, Dawn M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

California; Ceanothus greggii var; Disturbance; Fire; Habitat fragmentation; Habitat loss; Obligate seeding shrub; Perplexans chaparral; Population dynamics; Population model; USA

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DISTURBANCE; FIRE; FIRE HISTORY; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT LOSS; LIFE CYCLE; POPULATION DECLINE; SEEDING; SHRUB; STOCHASTICITY; TRADE-OFF;

ARTICLE; CEANOTHUS; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; FIRE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT SEED; REPRODUCTION; TIME; UNITED STATES;

CALIFORNIA; CEANOTHUS; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; FIRES; REPRODUCTION; SEEDS; TIME FACTORS;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

CEANOTHUS GREGGII;

EID: 77951200374     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/09-0287.1     Document Type: Article

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