Investigating competitive interactions from spatial patterns of trees in multispecies boreal forests: The random mortality hypothesis revisited

Canadian Journal of Botany

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 93-100

  Little, L R ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Jack pine; Pinus banksiana; Populus tremuloides; Size variability; Trembling aspen; Triangulation

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DISTANCE MEASUREMENT; POPULATION STATISTICS; POSITION MEASUREMENT; SIZE DETERMINATION;

PLANT COMPETION;

FORESTRY;

BOREAL FOREST; HETEROGENEITY; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION;

LAMB; PARAGNETINA; PINUS BANKSIANA; POPULUS; POPULUS TREMULOIDES;

EID: 0036188584     PISSN: 00084026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/b01-141     Document Type: Article

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