When does seed limitation matter for scaling up reforestation from patches to landscapes?

Ecological Applications

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 2437-2448

  Caughlin, T Trevor ^a   Elliott, Stephen ^b   Lichstein, Jeremy W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b CHIANG MAI UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

animal seed dispersal; Bonn challenge; directed dispersal; forest dynamics model; forest landscape restoration; Lambert's W function; mathematical model; perfect plasticity approximation; secondary succession; seed addition; seed limitation; spatial model

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; FOREST DYNAMICS; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GROWTH RATE; LAND DEGRADATION; LANDSCAPE PROTECTION; LIMITING FACTOR; NUMERICAL MODEL; REFORESTATION; REGROWTH; SECONDARY SUCCESSION; SEED DISPERSAL; SEED RAIN; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL;

ANIMALIA;

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; FOREST; PLANT SEED; TREE;

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; FORESTS; SEEDS; TREES;

EID: 84997755006     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19395582     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/eap.1410     Document Type: Article

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