Positive and negative plant interactions contribute to a north-south-patterned association between two desert shrub species

Oecologia

Volumn 132, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 402-410

  Schenk, H Jochen ^a,b   Mahall, Bruce E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Competition; Directionality; Facilitation; Seedling survival; Spatial patterns

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); DESERT; FACILITATION; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; INTRASPECIFIC INTERACTION; PLANT COMMUNITY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

UNITED STATES;

ACAMPTOPAPPUS; ACAMPTOPAPPUS SPHAEROCEPHALUS; AMBROSIA; AMBROSIA DUMOSA; SPHAEROCEPHALUS;

EID: 0036936722     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-002-0990-9     Document Type: Article

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