Fine-scale spatial structure in a grassland community: Quantifying the plant's-eye view

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 121-129

  Purves, D W ^a,b   Law, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anisotropy; Plant community dynamics; Spatial aggregation; Spatial covariance functions; Spatial pattern

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION; GRASSLAND; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; PLANT COMMUNITY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

UNITED KINGDOM;

AGROSTIS; AGROSTIS STOLONIFERA; HOLCUS; HOLCUS LANATUS; LOLIUM; LOLIUM PERENNE;

EID: 0036192138     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.0022-0477.2001.00652.x     Document Type: Article

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