Year-to-year variation in plant competition in a mountain grassland

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 103-113

  Herben, Tomáš ^a,b   Krahulec, František ^a   Hadincová, Věra ^a   Pecháčková, Sylvie ^a   Wildová, Radka ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (Czech Republic)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Competition; Environment competition interaction; Festuca rubra; Growth forms; Randomization tests; Redundancy analysis; Removal experiment; Temporal heterogeneity; Year to year variation

Indexed keywords

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; ANNUAL VARIATION; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); GRASSLAND; REMOVAL EXPERIMENT;

DICOTYLEDONEAE; FESTUCA RUBRA;

EID: 0037329497     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2745.2003.00746.x     Document Type: Article

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