Negative associations can reveal interspecific competition and reversal of competitive hierarchies during succession

Oikos

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 161-168

  Rejmánek, Marcel ^a   Lepš, Jan ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^c INSTITUTE OF ENTOMOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; SUCCESSION;

USA, CALIFORNIA, SIERRA NEVADA;

ARCTOSTAPHYLOS PATULA; ASTERACEAE; CIRSIUM VULGARE; ERICACEAE;

EID: 0030303750     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3545758     Document Type: Article

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