Facilitation of tree saplings by nurse plants: microhabitat amelioration or protection against herbivores?
12 pages, 4 figures, 4 tables, 73 references. We thank the Consejería de Medio Ambiente, Junta de Andalucía, and the direction of the National Park, for permission to work in Sierra Nevada. We are especially grateful to Empresa de Transformación Agraria S.A. (TRAGSA) for carrying out the experimental plantations. Jose M. Gómez, Sergio de Haro, Elena Baraza and Daniel García kindly helped with the field work. David Nesbitt looked over the English version of the manuscript.
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| Format: | artículo biblioteca |
| Language: | English |
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Opulus Press
2008-01
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| Subjects: | Abiotic stress, Facilitation mechanism, Herbivory pressure, Mediterranean mountain, Nurse shrub, Sapling survival, Species-specific effect, |
| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10261/41259 http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000780 http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100006280 http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100003176 http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100011011 |
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