Colonization of experimentally created gaps along an alpine successional gradient

Plant Ecology

Volumn 212, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1613-1627

  Cichini, Kay ^a   Schwienbacher, Erich ^a   Marcante, Silvia ^a   Seeber, Gilg U H ^a   Erschbamer, Brigitta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Clonal ingrowth; Establishment; Facilitation; Glacier foreland; Life form; Recruitment; Seedling

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ADULT; ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; CLONAL GROWTH; COLONIZATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FACILITATION; FORELAND BASIN; GLACIER; GROWTH FORM; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; PIONEER SPECIES; PRIMARY SUCCESSION; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT;

EID: 80052830255     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-011-9934-y     Document Type: Article

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