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Conspecific plants are better ‘nurses’ than rocks: consistent results revealing intraspecific facilitation as a process that promotes establishment in a hyper-arid environment

Harsh environmental conditions in arid ecosystems limit seedling recruitment to microhabitats under nurse structures, such as shrubs or rocks. These structures, however, do not necessarily afford the same benefits to plants because nurse rocks provide only physical nurse effects, whereas nurse plant...

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Autores principales: Loayza, Andrea P, Herrera-Madariaga, Marisol A, Carvajal, Danny E, García-Guzmán, Patricio, Squeo, Francisco A
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5710651/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29218138
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/aobpla/plx056