Facilitative effect of Lotus tenuis on Paspalum dilatatum in a lowland grassland of Argentina

Oecologia

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 427-431

  Quinos, Patricio M ^a   Insausti, Pedro ^a   Soriano, Alberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Argentina; Competition; Facilitation; Flooding pampa; Grass legume interactions

Indexed keywords

BIOMANIPULATION; GRASSLAND; GROWTH; NITROGEN; PLANT COMMUNITY;

ARGENTINA, PAMPAS;

LOTUS TENIUS; LOTUS TENUIS; PASPALUM DILATATUM;

EID: 0031967317     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004420050466     Document Type: Article

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