River confluences enhance riparian plant species diversity

Plant Ecology

Volumn 209, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 95-108

  Osawa, Takeshi ^a   Mitsuhashi, Hiromune ^b   Ushimaru, Atushi ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b MUSEUM OF NATURE AND HUMAN ACTIVITIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Disturbance; Flooding; Seasonal matching; Spatial heterogeneity; Temporal matching

Indexed keywords

BARE SOIL; CONFLUENCE; DISTURBANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FLOODING; GROWING SEASON; HETEROGENEITY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); RIPARIAN VEGETATION; RIVER BANK; RIVER BASIN; SEASONALITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SURVIVAL;

HONSHU; HYOGO; JAPAN; KINKI; MUKO RIVER;

EID: 77953479476     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-010-9726-9     Document Type: Article

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