Accelerated seedling emergence in interspecific competitive neighbourhoods

Ecology Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 523-529

  Dyer, A R ^a,b   Fenech, A ^a,b   Rice, K J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA AIKEN   (United States)

Author keywords

Competition; Emergence; Germination; Grasses; Nassella pulchra; Neighbourhood; Seeds

Indexed keywords

INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; SEED DORMANCY; SEEDLING EMERGENCE;

EID: 0033737807     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.2000.00187.x     Document Type: Article

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