Indirect effects in a desert plant community: Is competition among annuals more intense under shrub canopies?

Plant Ecology

Volumn 150, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 53-63

  Tielbörger, Katja ^a,b   Kadmon, Ronen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Annual plants; Competition; Desert; Environmental gradients; Experiments; Facilitation; Indirect interactions; Sand dunes; Seed size; Shrubs

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL PLANT; CANOPY; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; MICROHABITAT; SHRUB;

EID: 0034493490     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1026541428547     Document Type: Conference Paper

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