Temporal environmental variation tips the balance between facilitation and interference in desert plants

Ecology

Volumn 81, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1544-1553

  Tielbörger, Katja ^a   Kadmon, Ronen ^b  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Annual plants; Desert plants community; Environmental gradient; Facilitation; Interference; Plant plant interactions; Rainfall; Shrubs; Temporal variation

Indexed keywords

DESERT; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FACILITATION; INTERFERENCE COMPETITION; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; POPULATION DENSITY; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

EID: 0342505294     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2000)081[1544:TEVTTB]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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