The role of dispersal in shaping plant community composition of wetlands within an old-growth forest

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 98, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1292-1299

  Flinn, Kathryn M ^a,c   Gouhier, Tarik C ^a,d   Lechowicz, Martin J ^a   Waterway, Marcia J ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c EMORY AND HENRY COLLEGE   (United States)

^d OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Determinants of plant community diversity and structure; Dispersal; Metacommunity; Ordination; Principal coordinates of neighbour matrices; Redundancy analysis; Spatial structure; Species sorting; Variation partitioning; Wetland

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DECIDUOUS FOREST; DISPERSAL; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT TYPE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; OLD-GROWTH FOREST; ORDINATION; PLANT COMMUNITY; SPATIAL VARIATION; SWAMP; UPLAND REGION; WETLAND;

CANADA; QUEBEC [CANADA];

ACER; FAGUS;

EID: 77958196482     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: 13652745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2010.01708.x     Document Type: Article

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