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| CUEVAS,JAIME G; SILVA,SERGIO I; LEÓN-LOBOS,PEDRO; GINOCCHIO,ROSANNA. |
| Positive interactions among plants, such as the nurse effect, can attenuate environmental stress (e.g., drought) or reduce the intensity of perturbations (e.g., herbivory), thus enhancing the possibility of regeneration in natural systems. This study analyses the potential use of nurse plants for restoring artificial environments, such as mine hard-rock dumps. We evaluated seedling recruitment and survival in open areas and beneath the canopy of nurse shrubs, with and without grazing exclusion, on an abandoned copper tailings storage facility in north-central Chile. The nurse species was Baccharis linearis (Asteraceae), and seedling species were B. linearis, Haplopappus parvifolius (Asteraceae), Schismus arabicus (Poaceae), and several forb/grass taxa. A... |
| Tipo: Journal article |
Palavras-chave: Baccharis linearis; Haplopappus parvifolius; Hard rock waste; Primary succession; Survival analysis. |
| Ano: 2013 |
URL: http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0716-078X2013000100006 |
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| VARGAS,RODRIGO; CUEVAS,JAIME G; LE QUESNE,CARLOS; REIF,ALBERT; BANNISTER,JAN. |
| We describe the structure of the endemic Robinson Crusoe Island forest. We analyse the regeneration strategies of the trees: Myrceugenia fernandeziana, Fagara mayu, and Drimys confertifolia. Inventories were taken on nearly intact montane forest remnants with emphasis on spatial patterns by using Ripley's K (t) function. We hypothesized that i) ornithochorous and barochorous species should show a clumped regeneration, as a consequence of seed rain; ii) nurse effect, if present, should also contribute to a clustered pattern; iii) clustering should disappear at more developed life-stages due to self-thinning; iv) if gaps influence tree mortality and regeneration, these will present grouped patterns. Myrceugenia fernandeziana was the most abundant tree... |
| Tipo: Journal article |
Palavras-chave: Forest regeneration; Juan Fernández Islands; Myrtisylva; Ripley's K-function; Spatial point pattern analysis. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0716-078X2010000300003 |
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