Reduced tree health and seedling production in fragmented Fagus sylvatica forest patches in the Montseny Mountains (NE Spain)

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 261, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2029-2037

  Barbeta, Adrià ^a   Peñuelas, Josep ^a   Ogaya, Romà ^a   Jump, Alistair S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Defoliation; Demography; Establishment; European beech; Forest fragmentation; Inbreeding; Isolation; Mortality; Range edge; Reproduction

Indexed keywords

DEFOLIATION; DEMOGRAPHY; ESTABLISHMENT; EUROPEAN BEECH; FOREST FRAGMENTATION; INBREEDING; ISOLATION; MORTALITY; RANGE EDGE; REPRODUCTION;

FORESTRY; HEALTH; HEALTH RISKS; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

COHORT ANALYSIS; DECIDUOUS TREE; DEFOLIATION; DEMOGRAPHY; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; JUVENILE; MORTALITY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; REPRODUCTION; SEED PRODUCTION; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; SIZE STRUCTURE;

BIOLOGICAL POPULATIONS; BREEDING; DEFOLIATION; FAGUS SYLVATICA; FORESTRY; FORESTS; FRAGMENTATION; HEALTH; ISOLATION; MORTALITY; REPRODUCTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS;

CATALONIA; MONTSENY MOUNTAINS; SPAIN;

FAGUS; FAGUS SYLVATICA;

EID: 79955031144     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2011.02.029     Document Type: Article

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