Linking stochasticity to determinism of woody plant recruitment in a mosaic landscape: A spatially explicit approach

Basic and Applied Ecology

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 161-171

  Quero, José L ^a,b,c   Herrero, Asier ^a   Zamora, Regino ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSIDAD REY JUAN CARLOS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Environmental determinism; Mediterranean mountain forest; Microsite; Recruitment hotspot; SADIE; Spatial heterogeneity; Spatio temporal plant dynamics; Stochasticity

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952697762     PISSN: 14391791     EISSN: 16180089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.baae.2010.11.007     Document Type: Article

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