Predicting competition coefficients for plant mixtures: Reciprocity, transitivity and correlations with life-history traits

Ecology Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 348-357

  Freckleton, R P ^a   Watkinson, A R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Community dynamics; Resource competition; Yield density equation

Indexed keywords

COMPETITIVE ABILITY; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; PLANT COMMUNITY;

EID: 0034879219     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.2001.00231.x     Document Type: Article

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