Mechanisms promoting plant coexistence: Can all the proposed processes be reconciled?

Oikos

Volumn 106, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 185-192

  Barot, Sébastien ^a   Gignoux, Jacques ^b  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^b ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COEXISTENCE;

EID: 3042678698     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0030-1299.2004.13038.x     Document Type: Review

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