Survival and competition of clonal plant populations in spatially and temporally heterogeneous habitats

Community Ecology

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-20

  Kun, A ^a   Oborny, B ^a  

^a EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Colonization; Competitive exclusion; Habitat fragmentation; Individual based model; Patchy environment; Physiological integration; Population dynamics; Ramet; Resource heterogeneity; Spatial ecology

Indexed keywords

CLONAL GROWTH; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); PLANT COMMUNITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RAMET; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SPATIAL VARIATION; SURVIVAL; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

EID: 0042570247     PISSN: 15858553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1556/ComEc.4.2003.1.1     Document Type: Article

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