Estimates of connectivity reveal non-equilibrium epiphyte occurrence patterns almost 180 years after habitat decline

Oecologia

Volumn 172, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 607-615

  Johansson, Victor ^a   Snäll, Tord ^a   Ranius, Thomas ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Colonisation rate; Extinction debt; Landscape history; Lichens; Southeastern Sweden

Indexed keywords

DECIDUOUS TREE; DISPERSAL; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EPIPHYTE; ESTIMATION METHOD; EXTINCTION; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT LOSS; LANDSCAPE; LICHEN; NICHE; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION DENSITY; PROPAGULE; REGENERATION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPECIALIZATION; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; SURVEY;

ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; LICHEN (ORGANISM); OAK; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SWEDEN; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ECOSYSTEM; LICHENS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; QUERCUS; SWEDEN;

SWEDEN;

QUERCUS;

EID: 84878109399     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-012-2509-3     Document Type: Article

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