Small-scale species richness in forest canopy gaps: The role of niche limitation versus the size of the species pool

Journal of Vegetation Science

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 455-460

  Duncan, Richard P ^a   Buckley, Hannah L ^a,b   Urlich, Stephen C ^a   Stewart, Glenn H ^a   Geritzlehner, Julie ^a  

^a LINCOLN UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Coexistence; Competitive exclusion; Local richness; Regional richness; Saturation; Spatial scale

Indexed keywords

CANOPY GAP; LIMITING FACTOR; NICHE; SPECIES RICHNESS; VASCULAR PLANT;

NEW ZEALAND;

NOTHOFAGUS;

EID: 0031741642     PISSN: 11009233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3237109     Document Type: Article

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