Patterns of seed dispersal syndromes on serpentine soils: Examining the roles of habitat patchiness, soil infertility and correlated functional traits

Plant Ecology and Diversity

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 401-410

  Spasojevic, Marko J ^a   Damschen, Ellen I ^b   Harrison, Susan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

directed dispersal; dispersal syndromes; habitat patchiness; phylogenetic relatedness; plant functional traits; serpentine

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865292594     PISSN: 17550874     EISSN: 17551668     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17550874.2012.678506     Document Type: Article

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