Seed survival on experimental dishes in a central European old-growth mixed-species forest - effects of predator guilds, tree masting and small mammal population dynamics

Oikos

Volumn 121, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 337-346

  Nopp Mayr, Ursula ^a   Kempter, Iris ^a   Muralt, Gerald ^a   Gratzer, Georg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CONIFEROUS TREE; DECIDUOUS TREE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FOREST DYNAMICS; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; MIXED FOREST; MORTALITY; NONLINEARITY; OLD-GROWTH FOREST; PLANT COMMUNITY; POLLINATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SEED DISPERSAL; SEED PREDATION; SMALL MAMMAL; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL; TRAPPING; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

AUSTRIA;

ABIES; ABIES ALBA; FAGUS; FAGUS SYLVATICA; MAMMALIA; PICEA; PICEA ABIES;

EID: 84857642372     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2011.19099.x     Document Type: Article

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