Diversity effects on production in different light and fertility environments: An experiment with communities of annual plants

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 396-406

  Fridley, Jason D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Complementarity; Facilitation; Light partitioning; Overyielding; Sampling effect

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL PLANT; FACILITATION; LIGHT AVAILABILITY; NICHE PARTITIONING; PLANT COMMUNITY; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SOIL FERTILITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

EID: 0038727335     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2745.2003.00775.x     Document Type: Article

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