Seedling establishment in a masting desert shrub parallels the pattern for forest trees

Acta Oecologica

Volumn 65-66, Issue , 2015, Pages 1-10

  Meyer, Susan E ^a   Pendleton, Burton K ^a  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Coleogyne ramosissima (blackbrush); Heteromyid rodent; Scatter hoarding; Seed dispersal; Seed predation; Seedling bank

Indexed keywords

CACHING; CONSPECIFIC; DESERT; DISTURBANCE; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; MASTING; RODENT; SEED BANK; SEED DISPERSAL; SEED PREDATION; SEEDLING EMERGENCE; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; SHRUB;

NORTH AMERICA;

COLEOGYNE RAMOSISSIMA; HETEROMYIDAE; RODENTIA;

EID: 84925082704     PISSN: 1146609X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actao.2015.03.001     Document Type: Article

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