Making a stand: Five centuries of population growth in colonizing populations of Pinus ponderosa

Ecology

Volumn 93, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1071-1081

  Lesser, Mark R ^a   Jackson, Stephen T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

Allee effects; Bighorn basin, wyoming, USA; Climate variability; Colonization; Demographic stochasticity; Demography; Growth rate; Invasion; Pinus ponderosa

Indexed keywords

ALLEE EFFECT; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; CLIMATE VARIATION; COLONIZATION; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DEMOGRAPHY; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; DISPERSAL; EIGHTEENTH CENTURY; GROWTH RATE; LIFE HISTORY; PALEOECOLOGY; POPULATION GROWTH; STOCHASTICITY; TWENTIETH CENTURY; VEGETATION HISTORY;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PONDEROSA PINE; POPULATION; POPULATION GROWTH; TIME; UNITED STATES;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; PINUS PONDEROSA; POPULATION; POPULATION GROWTH; TIME FACTORS; WYOMING;

BIGHORN BASIN; UNITED STATES; WYOMING;

PINUS PONDEROSA;

EID: 84861409219     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658-93.5.1071     Document Type: Article

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