The roles of environmental filtering and colonization in the fine-scale spatial patterning of ground-layer plant communities in north temperate deciduous forests

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 99, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 764-776

  Burton, Julia I ^a,c   Mladenoff, David J ^a   Clayton, Murray K ^a,b   Forrester, Jodi A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^c OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Determinants of plant community diversity and structure; Dispersal; Environmental filtering; Functional groups; Herbaceous layer; Soil resources; Spatial patterning; Structural equation modelling; Understorey vegetation; Wisconsin

Indexed keywords

COLONIZATION; DECIDUOUS FOREST; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; GAP DYNAMICS; GROWING SEASON; HETEROGENEITY; PLANT COMMUNITY; SOIL HORIZON; SOIL MOISTURE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL VARIATION; UNDERSTORY;

UNITED STATES; WISCONSIN;

EID: 79954468640     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: 13652745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2011.01807.x     Document Type: Article

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