Landscape-scale density-dependent recruitment of oaks in planted forests: More is not always better

Ecology

Volumn 94, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1718-1728

  Sheffer, Efrat ^a,d   Canham, Charles D ^b   Kigel, Jaime ^a   Perevolotsky, Avi ^c  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES   (United States)

^c VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

^d PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal mediated dispersal; Colonization; Density dependence; Dispersal limitation; Janzen Connell; Maximum likelihood; Mediterranean; Pinus halepensis; Plantations; Quercus calliprinos; Recruitment; Seed predation

Indexed keywords

COLONIZATION; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; LANDSCAPE; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; MORTALITY; NONLINEARITY; PLANT COMMUNITY; POPULATION DENSITY; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); TREE;

ANIMALIA; PINUS HALEPENSIS; QUERCUS; QUERCUS CALLIPRINOS;

EID: 84881222567     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/12-2121.1     Document Type: Article

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