Demographic consequences for a threatened plant after the loss of its only disperser. Habitat suitability buffers limited seed dispersal

Oikos

Volumn 121, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 835-847

  Rodriguez Perez J ^a,b   Traveset, A ^a  

^a INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

^b HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHY; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FECUNDITY; HABITAT LOSS; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH; RAINFALL; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); REPRODUCTIVE CYCLE; SEED DISPERSAL; VULNERABILITY;

BALEARIC ISLANDS; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MINORCA; SPAIN;

DAPHNE;

EID: 84861471682     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2011.19946.x     Document Type: Article

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