The relationship of total and per-gram rankings in competitive effect to the natural abundance of herbaceous perennials

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 110-117

  Howard, Timothy G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b New York Natural Heritage Program   (United States)

Author keywords

Additive experiments; Boundary analysis; Competitive hierarchies; Competitive suppression; Field experiment

Indexed keywords

COMPETITIVE ABILITY; ENVIRONMENT; PLANT COMPETITION; PLANT DENSITY; PLANT ECOLOGY; PLANT GROWTH; SPECIES ABUNDANCE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ABUNDANCE; COMPETITIVENESS; GROWTH RESPONSE; PERENNIAL PLANT;

EID: 0034918339     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2745.2001.00533.x     Document Type: Article

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