Drivers of secondary succession rates across temperate latitudes of the Eastern USA: Climate, soils, and species pools

Oecologia

Volumn 168, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1069-1077

  Fridley, Jason D ^a   Wright, Justin P ^b  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Climate change; Old field succession; Species pool; Tree herb competition

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; CLIMATE CHANGE; COLONIZATION; DECIDUOUS FOREST; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; LATITUDE; PLANT COMMUNITY; RAINFALL; SECONDARY SUCCESSION; SEEDLING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOIL FERTILITY; SOIL PROPERTY; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CLIMATE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PLANT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOIL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; UNITED STATES;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; MID-ATLANTIC REGION; PLANTS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOIL; SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84858005441     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-011-2152-4     Document Type: Article

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