Relative performance of clumped vs. experimentally isolated plants in a South African winter-rainfall desert community

Plant Ecology

Volumn 155, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 219-227

  Eccles, Neil ^a   Lamont, Byron ^b   Esler, Karen ^c   Lamont, Heather ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Branch growth; Competition; Positive interactions; Risk; Shrubs; Strandveld; Vegetation clumps; Water relations

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; COMPETITION; WATER RELATIONS;

SOUTH AFRICA;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0035653918     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1013229122307     Document Type: Article

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