Strong microsite control of seedling recruitment in tundra

• Published in: Oecologia
• Main Authors: Graae, Bente J., Ejrnæs, Rasmus, Lang, Simone I., Meineri, Eric, Ibarra, Pablo T., Bruun, Hans Henrik
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Springer-Verlag 2010
• Subjects: Community ecology - Original Paper; Fuller; Tundra
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3094527; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21170749; https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-010-1878-8

The inclusion of environmental variation in studies of recruitment is a prerequisite for realistic predictions of the responses of vegetation to a changing environment. We investigated how seedling recruitment is affected by seed availability and microsite quality along a steep environmental gradien...