Community assembly rules, morphological dispersion, and the coexistence of plant species

Oikos

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 309-322

  Weiher, Evan ^a,b   Clarke, G D Paul ^a   Keddy, Paul A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COEXISTENCE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; MORPHOLOGY; PLANT COMMUNITY; SOIL PROPERTY; WETLAND;

EID: 0031952351     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3547051     Document Type: Article

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