Environmental heterogeneity promotes floristic turnover in temperate forests of south-eastern Australia more than dispersal limitation and disturbance

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2017, Pages 1613-1629

  Kasel, Sabine ^a   Bennett, Lauren T ^a   Aponte, Cristina ^a   Fedrigo, Melissa ^a   Nitschke, Craig R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Community assembly; Eucalypt; Fire; Functional types; Neutral theory; Niche; Rainforest; Stand structure

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; COMPLEXITY; DECIDUOUS TREE; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FLORISTICS; FOREST FIRE; FUNCTIONAL ROLE; HETEROGENEITY; PLANT COMMUNITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TEMPERATE FOREST; TURNOVER;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 85018794266     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-017-0526-7     Document Type: Article

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