Sporadic rainy events are more critical than increasing of drought intensity for woody species recruitment in a Mediterranean community

Oecologia

Volumn 169, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 833-844

  Matías, Luis ^a,b   Zamora, Regino ^a   Castro, Jorge ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate change; Rainfall variability; Recruitment; Summer drought; Vegetation dynamics

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; BIOMASS; CLIMATE VARIATION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DROUGHT STRESS; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; HABITAT TYPE; PLANT COMMUNITY; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); REGENERATION; SHRUB; SUCCESSION; SURVIVAL; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

ANGIOSPERM; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; SEEDLING; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

ANGIOSPERMS; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHTS; ECOSYSTEM; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; RAIN; SEEDLING; SPAIN;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

EID: 84862180954     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-011-2234-3     Document Type: Article

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