Plant interactions govern population dynamics in a semi-arid plant community

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 93, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 978-989

  Armas, Cristina ^a,b   Pugnaire, Francisco I ^a  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE ECOLOGÍA FUNCIONAL Y EVOLUTIVA   (Spain)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Competition; Environmental variability; Facilitation; Nurse syndrome

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CONDITIONS; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; INTRASPECIFIC INTERACTION; LIFE HISTORY; NURSE PLANT; PLANT COMMUNITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SEMIARID REGION; SHRUB; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

CISTUS; CISTUS CLUSII; STIPA; STIPA TENACISSIMA;

EID: 33645063650     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: 13652745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2005.01033.x     Document Type: Article

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