Interspecific competition in plants: How well do current methods answer fundamental questions?

American Naturalist

Volumn 157, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 107-125

  Connolly, J ^a   Wayne, P ^a   Bazzaz, F A ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Additive series; Competition; Design of competition experiments; Replacement series; Size bias; Thought experiments

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; PLANT; SIZE EFFECT;

EID: 0035117465     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/318631     Document Type: Article

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