Early successional woody plants facilitate and ferns inhibit forest development on puerto rican landslides

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 625-635

  Walker, Lawrence R ^a,b   Landau, Frederick H ^a   Velázquez, Eduardo ^a,c   Shiels, Aaron B ^b   Sparrow, Ashley D ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^e CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Assembly; Competition; Disturbance; Facilitation; Gleicheniaceae; Primary succession; Removal experiment; Scrambling fern; Tree fern; Understorey plants

Indexed keywords

DISTURBANCE; FACILITATION; FERN; INHIBITION; LANDSLIDE; PLANT COMMUNITY; PRIMARY SUCCESSION; REMOVAL EXPERIMENT; SPECIES RICHNESS; UNDERSTORY; WOODY PLANT;

LUQUILLO EXPERIMENTAL FOREST; PUERTO RICO;

DIPLOPTERYGIUM PINNATUM; FILICOPHYTA; GLEICHENIACEAE;

EID: 77952903867     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: 13652745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2010.01641.x     Document Type: Article

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