Functional roles of remnant plant populations in communitiesand ecosystems

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 443-449

  Eriksson, O ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Clonal plants; Ecosystem resilience; Life cycle loops; Nutrientcycling; Plant functional groups; Population dynamics; positiveinteractions; Remnant populations; Stability

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; FUNCTIONAL ROLE; PLANT COMMUNITY; RELICT COMMUNITY;

EID: 0034467447     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2699.2000.00215.x     Document Type: Article

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