Primary succession trajectories on a barren plain, Mount St. Helens, Washington

Journal of Vegetation Science

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 857-867

  Del Moral, Roger ^a   Saura, Jason M ^a   Emenegger, Jennifer N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Community assembly; Convergence; Divergence; Permanent plots; Rate of succession; Redundancy analysis; Restoration; Stochastic assembly; Succession network

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS; DIVERGENCE; DOMINANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; LAHAR; PIONEER SPECIES; PLANT COMMUNITY; PRIMARY SUCCESSION; PUMICE; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; STOCHASTICITY; TERRAIN; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

CASCADE RANGE; MOUNT SAINT HELENS; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES];

EID: 77956317035     PISSN: 11009233     EISSN: 16541103     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1654-1103.2010.01189.x     Document Type: Article

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