Linking community and ecosystem processes: The role of minor species

Ecosystems

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 119-127

  Boeken, Bertrand ^a   Shachak, Moshe ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Annual plants; Dead annuals; Filtering hypothesis; Plant recruitment; Removal experiments; Semiarid shrubland; Soil penetration

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; DISPERSAL; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; RECOLONIZATION; SEED PREDATION; SEMIARID REGION; SHRUBLAND;

FORMICIDAE; STIPA CAPENSIS;

EID: 33645803360     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: 14350629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-004-0079-x     Document Type: Article

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