Experimental assessment of dispersal and habitat limitation in an oligotrophic wet meadow

Plant Ecology

Volumn 212, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1231-1242

  Vítová, Alena ^a   Lepš, Jan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF ENTOMOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Habitat limitation; Seedling recruitment; Sowing experiment; Species pool; Transplant experiment

Indexed keywords

DICOTYLEDON; DISPERSAL; DISTURBANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; INVASIVE SPECIES; LITTER; MEADOW; OLIGOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; POPULATION VIABILITY ANALYSIS; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; SOWING; SPECIES POOL; SURVIVAL; TRANSPLANTATION; VEGETATIVE PROPAGATION;

BRYOPHYTA;

EID: 79960293569     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-011-9900-8     Document Type: Article

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