Relationships among species traits: Separating levels of response and identifying linkages to abundance

Ecology

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-16

  Suding, Katharine Nash ^a,b   Goldberg, Deborah E ^a   Hartman, Kurt M ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Colonization; Competition; Disturbance; Multilevel responses; Organismal traits; Prairie plant community; Specific leaf area (SLA); Stress tolerance; Trade offs

Indexed keywords

COLONIZATION; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); DISTURBANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; PLANT COMMUNITY; PRAIRIE; TOLERANCE; TRADE-OFF;

EID: 0043027725     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2003)084[0001:rastsl]2.0.co;2     Document Type: Article

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