Evidence for community assembly constraints during succession in dune slack plant communities

Plant Ecology

Volumn 178, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 201-209

  Bossuyt, B ^a   Honnay, O ^b   Hermy, M ^b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Assembly rules; Community saturation; Guild proportionality; Niche; Null model analysis

Indexed keywords

DISPERSAL; DUNE; PLANT COMMUNITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; SUCCESSION;

EID: 23944485989     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-004-3287-8     Document Type: Article

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