Shifting bottom-up and top-down regulation of oak recruitment across a regional resource gradient

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 718-727

  McLaughlin, Blair C ^a   Zavaleta, Erika S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bottom up; California; Climate gradient; Consumer based limitation; Oak recruitment; Population regulation; Quercus lobata; Resource based limitation; Top down

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM-UP CONTROL; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; DECIDUOUS TREE; FOREST RESOURCE; GLOBAL CHANGE; POPULATION REGULATION; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TOP-DOWN CONTROL;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84877330662     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/geb.12028     Document Type: Article

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