Seed arrival and ecological filters interact to assemble high-diversity plant communities

Ecology

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 676-686

  Myers, Jonathan A ^a,c   Harms, Kyle E ^a,b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Community assembly; Dispersal assembly; Environmental filtering; Fire disturbance intensity; Niche assembly; Resource availability; Soil moisture; Species diversity; Species pool; Species rich longleaf pine savanna

Indexed keywords

WATER;

BIODIVERSITY; CONIFEROUS TREE; FIRE HISTORY; GROUND COVER; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; PLANT COMMUNITY; PROPAGULE; RARE SPECIES; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SAVANNA; SOIL MOISTURE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; CHEMISTRY; DEMOGRAPHY; NORTH AMERICA; PHYSIOLOGY; PINE; PLANT SEED; SOIL;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; DEMOGRAPHY; NORTH AMERICA; PINUS; SEEDS; SOIL; WATER;

NORTH AMERICA;

PINUS PALUSTRIS;

EID: 79955531985     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/10-1001.1     Document Type: Article

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