Association between competition and facilitation processes and vegetation spatial patterns in alpha steppes

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 103-113

  Alados, C L ^a   Gotor, P ^a   Ballester, P ^a   Navas, D ^b   Escos, J M ^c   Navarro, T ^b   Cabezudo, B ^b  

^a INSTITUTO PIRENAICO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA   (Spain)

^c Infraestructura and Ecologia   (Spain)

Author keywords

Developmental instability; Fractal; Stipa tenacissima

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); DEVELOPMENTAL STABILITY; FACILITATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; VEGETATION;

ARTEMISIA; ARTEMISIA HERBA-ALBA; BRACHYPODIUM RETUSUM; FAGONIA CRETICA; HELIANTHEMUM ALMERIENSE; LAUNAEA; PHLOMIS; PHLOMIS PURPUREA; SIDERITIS; STIPA; STIPA TENACISSIMA; THYMUS VULGARIS;

EID: 33644951714     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2006.00559.x     Document Type: Article

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