Positive interactions between alpine plant species and the nurse cushion plant Laretia acaulis do not increase with elevation in the Andes of central Chile

New Phytologist

Volumn 169, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 59-69

  Cavieres, Lohengrin A ^a   Badano, Ernesto I ^a   Sierra Almeida, Angela ^a   Gómez González, Susana ^a   Molina Montenegro, Marco A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

Author keywords

Alpine ecology; Cushion plants; Facilitation; Microclimate; Positive spatial associations; Seedling survival; Semiarid mountains

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDINAL ZONATION; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; FACILITATION; MICROCLIMATE; PLANT COMMUNITY;

ANDES; CHILE; SOUTH AMERICA;

LARETIA ACAULIS;

ALTITUDE; APIALES; ARTICLE; CHILE; CLASSIFICATION; CLIMATE; DEHYDRATION; ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; SEEDLING; SOIL;

ALTITUDE; APIACEAE; CHILE; CLIMATE; DEHYDRATION; ECOSYSTEM; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; PLANTS; SEEDLING; SOIL;

EID: 33644867498     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2005.01573.x     Document Type: Article

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