A self-assembling model of resource dynamics and plant growth incorporating plant functional types

Functional Ecology

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 676-687

  Colasanti, R L ^a   Hunt, R ^a   Askew, A P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Competition; Environmental gradients; Individual based automata; Productivity

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; PLANT COMMUNITY;

EID: 0034794011     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.0269-8463.2001.00556.x     Document Type: Article

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