The trade-off between dispersability and longevity - An important aspect of plant species diversity

Applied Vegetation Science

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 29-36

  Ehrlen J ^a,b   Van Groenendael, J M ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Coexistence; Colonization; Competition; Extinction; Metapopulation dynamics; Species composition

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001835643     PISSN: 14022001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1479083     Document Type: Article

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