The balance between positive and negative plant interactions and its relationship to environmental gradients: A model

Oikos

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 196-207

  Brooker, Rob W ^a   Callaghan, Terry V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTIONS; MODELLING; PLANT COMMUNITY;

EID: 0031889333     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3546481     Document Type: Review

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