Pasture succession in the Neotropics: Extending the nucleation hypothesis into a matrix discontinuity hypothesis

Oecologia

Volumn 175, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1325-1335

  Peterson, Chris J ^a   Dosch, Jerald J ^b   Carson, Walter P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b MACALESTER COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Colonization; Dispersal; Facilitation; Microsites; Trees

Indexed keywords

COSTA RICA; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; TROPIC CLIMATE;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; COSTA RICA; ECOSYSTEM; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 84904630187     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-014-2986-7     Document Type: Article

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