Models suggesting field experiments to test two hypotheses explaining successional diversity

American Naturalist

Volumn 152, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 729-737

  Pacala, Stephen W ^a   Rees, Mark ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Competition colonization; Successional diversity; Successional niche

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; MODEL; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SUCCESSION;

EID: 0031733548     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/286203     Document Type: Article

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