Quantifying individual- and community-level effects of competition using experimentally-determined null species pools

Journal of Vegetation Science

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 433-442

  Rajaniemi, Tara K ^a   Goldberg, Deborah E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Competitive ability; Null community; Null model; Old field; Spatial aggregation; Species diversity; Species interaction; Species pool

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; FITNESS; PLANT COMMUNITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

EID: 0034210497     PISSN: 11009233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3236636     Document Type: Article

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