Demographic processes of upward range contraction in a long-lived Mediterranean high mountain plant

Ecography

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 85-93

  Giménez Benavides, Luis ^a   Albert, María José ^a   Iriondo, José María ^a   Escudero, Adrián ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD REY JUAN CARLOS   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; DEMOGRAPHY; EXTINCTION RISK; HERB; HOME RANGE; LIFE HISTORY; LIFE TABLE; LONGEVITY; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; MORTALITY; MOUNTAIN REGION; POPULATION GROWTH; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SEEDLING; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

SIERRA DE GUADARRAMA; SISTEMA CENTRAL; SPAIN;

CILIOPHORA; SILENE;

EID: 79952428459     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2010.06250.x     Document Type: Article

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