Life-history traits explain rapid colonization of young post-agricultural forests by understory herbs

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 278, Issue , 2012, Pages 55-62

  Brunet, Jörg ^a   De Frenne, Pieter ^b,c   Holmström, Emma ^a   Mayr, Marian Lajos ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Forest restoration; Herbaceous layer succession; Life history traits; Plant dispersal and migration; Quercus robur; Temperate broadleaved forest

Indexed keywords

BROAD-LEAVED FORESTS; FOREST RESTORATION; HERBACEOUS LAYER; LIFE HISTORY; PLANT DISPERSAL AND MIGRATION; QUERCUS ROBUR;

CONSERVATION; PHOSPHORUS; PLANTS (BOTANY); RESTORATION; SOILS;

FORESTRY;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; BROAD-LEAVED FOREST; COLONIZATION; DECIDUOUS FOREST; DIASPORA; DISPERSAL; FACILITATION; HERB; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; OLD-GROWTH FOREST; PH; PLANTATION FORESTRY; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SITE CHARACTERIZATION; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SUCCESSION; TEMPERATE FOREST; UNDERSTORY;

CONSERVATION; FORESTS; PHOSPHORUS; QUERCUS ROBUR; REFORESTATION; SOIL;

EUROPE;

QUERCUS ROBUR;

EID: 84861605757     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2012.05.002     Document Type: Article

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