Relationship between species relative abundance and plant traits for an infertile habitat

Plant Ecology

Volumn 134, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 43-51

  Reader, R J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Community structure; Plant frequency; Soil fertility

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; FERTILITY GRADIENT; INTERSPECIFIC VARIATION; PLANT TRAIT;

EID: 0031931367     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009700100343     Document Type: Article

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