Spatial dynamics in model plant communities: What do we really know?

American Naturalist

Volumn 162, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 135-148

  Bolker, Benjamin M ^a   Pacala, Stephen W ^b   Neuhauser, Claudia ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Competition; Competition colonization; Endogenous; Phalanx; Spatial; Successional niche

Indexed keywords

COLONIZATION; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); PLANT; POPULATION ECOLOGY;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0041976955     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/376575     Document Type: Article

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