Competition between tree seedlings and herbaceous vegetation: Support for a theory of resource supply and demand

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 86, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 652-661

  Davis, Mark A ^a   Wrage, Keith J ^b   Reich, Peter B ^b  

^a MACALESTER COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Competition; Grassland; Quercus; Resource demand; Resource gradients; Resource supply; Savanna; Tree regeneration

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; PLANT ECOLOGY;

ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; LIGHT; SEEDLING; SOIL WATER; TREE;

QUERCUS ELLIPSOIDALIS; QUERCUS MACROCARPA;

EID: 0031903976     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2745.1998.00087.x     Document Type: Article

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