Conundrums of competitive ability in plants: What to measure?

Oikos

Volumn 96, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 531-542

  Aarssen, Lonnie W ^a   Keogh, Teri ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); COMPETITIVE ABILITY; PLANT; SIZE;

DARWINIA;

EID: 0036222773     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0706.2002.960314.x     Document Type: Review

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