Experimental assessment of the survival and performance of forest herbs transplanted beyond their range limit

Basic and Applied Ecology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 10-19

  Van der Veken, Sebastiaan ^a,d   De Frenne, Pieter ^b,c   Baeten, Lander ^b   Van Beek, Eric ^a   Verheyen, Kris ^b   Hermy, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d Regionaal Landschap Kleine en Grote Nete ^*  (Belgium)

Author keywords

Assisted migration; Climate change; Forest understorey plants; Geographic range; Local adaptation; Range edges; Transplant experiment

Indexed keywords

IRIS FOETIDISSIMA; ORNITHOGALUM; ORNITHOGALUM PYRENAICUM; SCILLA BIFOLIA; SYMPHYTUM; SYMPHYTUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 84856235793     PISSN: 14391791     EISSN: 16180089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.baae.2011.10.007     Document Type: Article

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