Niches, rather than neutrality, structure a grassland pioneer guild

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 272, Issue 1570, 2005, Pages 1357-1364

  Turnbull, Lindsay A ^a,b   Manley, Liz ^b   Rees, Mark ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coexistence mechanisms; Competition colonization trade off; Neutral models; Niche partitioning; Seed limitation; Seed size

Indexed keywords

COEXISTENCE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); NICHE PARTITIONING; PIONEER SPECIES; SEED SIZE;

ARTICLE; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; GRASSLAND; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEED SIZE; SEEDLING; SOWING; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; GERMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT SEED; POPULATION DYNAMICS; UNITED KINGDOM;

ECOSYSTEM; ENGLAND; ENVIRONMENT; GERMINATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEEDS;

EID: 24044436243     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2005.3084     Document Type: Article

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