Plant competition experiments: Testing hypotheses and estimating the probability of coexistence

Ecology

Volumn 79, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1760-1767

  Damgaard, Christian ^a  

^a Department of Inland Fisheries   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Addition experiments; Bayesian statistics; Coexistence; Density dependent growth; Ecological risk assessment; Invasion; Lotka Volterra; Mixtures; Model; Plant competition; Replacement experiments; Response surface

Indexed keywords

COEXISTENCE; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; COMPETITION; MODELING; PLANT;

AVENA BARBATA; AVENA FATUA;

EID: 0031877866     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(1998)079[1760:PCETHA]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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