Competition and salt-marsh plant zonation: Stress tolerators may be dominant competitors

Ecology

Volumn 82, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 2471-2485

  Emery, N C ^a   Ewanchuk, P J ^a   Bertness, M D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aboveground competition; Belowground competition; Competitive mechanisms; Environmental gradients; Marsh plants, stress, competition, and zonation; New England (USA) salt marshes; Nutrient dependent competitive hierarchy; Plant competition; Salt marsh plant communities; Spartina, Juncus, and Distichlis; Stress tolerance; Trade offs

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; ECOLOGICAL ZONATION; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PLANT COMMUNITY; SALTMARSH;

RHODE ISLAND; UNITED STATES;

DISTICHLIS; JUNCUS; SPARTINA;

EID: 0034798229     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2001)082[2471:CASMPZ]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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