Modeling plant competition along an environmental gradient

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 170, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 45-53

  Damgaard, Christian ^a  

^a DMU   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis thaliana; Coexistence; Ecological predictions; Empirical model; Environmental gradient; Equilibrium; Extinction; Peronospora parasitica; Plant competition

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; FUNGUS; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; HYALOPERONOSPORA PARASITICA; PERONOSPORA; PERONOSPORA PARASITICA; TEREBRANTIA;

EID: 0347447342     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3800(03)00299-0     Document Type: Article

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