Restoring for the present or restoring for the future: Enhanced performance of two sympatric oaks (Quercus ilex and Quercus pyrenaica) above the current forest limit

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 936-946

  Leverkus, Alexandro B ^a   Castro, Jorge ^a   Delgado Capel, Manuel J ^b   Molinas González, Carlos ^a   Pulgar, Manuel ^c   Marañón Jiménez, Sara ^d   Delgado Huertas, Antonio ^b   Querejeta, José I ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO ANDALUZ DE CIENCIAS DE LA TIERRA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF JAÉN   (Spain)

^d HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^e RESEARCH GROUP ON QUALITY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Assisted colonization; Climate change; Isotopic analysis; Reforestation; Stable isotopes; Uphill shifts

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COLONIZATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; REFORESTATION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SEEDLING; STABLE ISOTOPE; TREE;

ANDALUCIA; BETIC CORDILLERA; SIERRA NEVADA [BETIC CORDILLERA]; SPAIN;

QUERCUS; QUERCUS ILEX; QUERCUS PYRENAICA;

EID: 84945481767     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/rec.12259     Document Type: Article

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