Do disturbances alter competitive hierarchies? Mechanisms of change following gap creation

Ecology

Volumn 82, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 2133-2149

  Sunding, K N ^a   Goldberg, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Abiotic stress; Andropogon gerardii; Competitive hierarchy; Coreopsis tripteris; Gap creation; Growth and survival hierarchies; Interaction intensity; Prairie ecology; Ratibida pinnata; Size structure; Soil disturbance

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DISTURBANCE; DOMINANCE; GAP DYNAMICS; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION;

ANDROPOGON; ANDROPOGON GERARDII; COREOPSIS; COREOPSIS TRIPTERIS; RATIBIDA; RATIBIDA PINNATA; TRIPTERIS;

EID: 0034891670     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2680221     Document Type: Article

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