How do bryophytes govern generative recruitment of vascular plants?

New Phytologist

Volumn 190, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1019-1031

  Soudzilovskaia, Nadejda A ^a   Graae, Bente J ^b   Douma, Jacob C ^a   Grau, Oriol ^c   Milbau, Ann ^d   Shevtsova, Anna ^e   Wolters, Loes ^a   Cornelissen, Johannes H C ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Allelopathy; Bryophyte; Generative recruitment; Germination; Moisture; Plant plant interaction; Seedling; Temperature

Indexed keywords

PHENOL DERIVATIVE; WATER;

ADAPTATION; ALLELOPATHY; BIOASSAY; BRYOPHYTE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; GERMINATION; INTERSPECIFIC VARIATION; PLANT COMMUNITY; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); REGROWTH; SEEDLING; SOIL MOISTURE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; VASCULAR PLANT;

ADAPTATION; ANGIOSPERM; ARTICLE; BIOSTATISTICS; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; GERMINATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MOSS; PHYSIOLOGY; SEASON; SEEDLING; SOIL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TEMPERATURE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANGIOSPERMS; BIOSTATISTICS; BRYOPHYTA; GERMINATION; PHENOLS; SEASONS; SEEDLING; SOIL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TEMPERATURE; WATER;

BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 79955771496     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2011.03644.x     Document Type: Article

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