Influence of conspecific and heterospecific adults on riparian tree species establishment during encroachment of a humid palm savanna

Oecologia

Volumn 167, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 141-148

  Rolhauser, Andrés G ^a,b   Chaneton, Enrique J ^a   Batista, William B ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE SAN JUAN   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Apparent competition; Escape hypothesis; Facilitation; Forest expansion; Invasion

Indexed keywords

ADULT; APPARENT COMPETITION; BURROWING; CONSPECIFIC; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; FACILITATION; FOREST FIRE; HUMID ENVIRONMENT; INVASIVE SPECIES; MONOCOTYLEDON; RIPARIAN FOREST; SAVANNA; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; SURVIVAL; TRAMPLING;

ARECACEAE; ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; EUPHORBIACEAE; GEOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; RIVER; SAPINDACEAE; SEED DISPERSAL; SEEDLING; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TREE;

ARECACEAE; ARGENTINA; ECOSYSTEM; EUPHORBIACEAE; GEOGRAPHY; RIVERS; SAPINDACEAE; SEED DISPERSAL; SEEDLING; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TREES;

ALLOPHYLUS; ALLOPHYLUS EDULIS; ANIMALIA; AVES; BUTIA YATAY; SEBASTIANIA; SEBASTIANIA COMMERSONIANA;

EID: 80051671936     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-011-1957-5     Document Type: Article

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