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Unpalatable plants facilitate tree sapling survival in wooded pastures

Smit, Christian ; Den Ouden, Jan ; Müller-Schärer, Heinz

In: Journal of Applied Ecology, 2006, vol. 43(2), p. 305

1. In endangered wooded pasture ecosystems established tree saplings are frequently found in spatial association with protective structures, suggesting nurse effects. This associational resistance is thought to be a driving force behind tree regeneration in wooded pastures. Experimental evidence for associational resistance is, however, scarce. We studied the effects of unpalatable plants on tree...