Is spatial structure the key to promote plant diversity in Mediterranean forest plantations?

Basic and Applied Ecology

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 251-259

  Gonzalez Moreno P ^a,b   Quero, J L ^b,c   Poorter, L ^b   Bonet, F J ^a   Zamora, R ^d  

^a Centro Andaluz de Medio Ambiente   (Spain)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSIDAD REY JUAN CARLOS   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Context; Dispersal; Distance; Fragmentation; Geometry; Landscape ecology; Shape; Spatial configuration

Indexed keywords

ILEX; QUERCUS ILEX;

EID: 79955540195     PISSN: 14391791     EISSN: 16180089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.baae.2011.02.012     Document Type: Article

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