Intermediate spatial variations on acorn predation shapes Holm oak establishment within a Mediterranean landscape context

Plant Ecology

Volumn 210, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 213-224

  Puerta Piñero, Carolina ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

Landscape ecology; Post dispersal seed predation; Pre dispersal seed predation; Quercus ilex; Recruitment; Spatial analysis

Indexed keywords

CONIFEROUS TREE; DECIDUOUS TREE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; MICROHABITAT; PIG; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); ROOTING; SEED PREDATION; SEEDLING EMERGENCE; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; SPATIAL VARIATION; VEGETATION TYPE; WOODLAND;

ANIMALIA; ILEX; QUERCUS ILEX; RODENTIA; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 77956011477     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-010-9750-9     Document Type: Article

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