Empirical approaches to quantifying interaction intensity: Competition and facilitation along productivity gradients

Ecology

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1118-1131

  Goldberg, Deborah E ^a   Rajaniemi, Tara ^a   Gurevitch, Jessica ^b   Stewart Oaten, Allan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Community ecology; Competition intensity; Effect size; Facilitation; Interaction intensity; Meta analysis; Metrics, choice of; Productivity gradients

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FACILITATION; PRODUCTIVITY;

EID: 0033040066     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(1999)080[1118:EATQII]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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