Evidence for constraint on species coexistence in vegetation of the Park Grass experiment

Vegetatio

Volumn 124, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 183-190

  Wilson, J Bastow ^a   Crawley, Mick J ^b   Dodd, Mike E ^c   Silvertown, Jonathan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Assembly rules; Coexistence; Community structure; Competition; Functional types; Grassland; Guild structure; Intrinsic guilds; Stability

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; COEXISTENCE; GRASSLAND; GUILD STRUCTURE;

EID: 0029662412     PISSN: 00423106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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