The role of below-ground competition during early stages of secondary succession: The case of 3-year-old Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) seedlings in an abandoned grassland

Oecologia

Volumn 148, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 373-383

  Picon Cochard, Catherine ^a   Coll, Lluis ^b,c   Balandier, Philippe ^b  

^a French National Institute of Agricultural Research   (France)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

13C; 15N; Light; Morphological and physiological plasticity; Soil water and N

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; ION EXCHANGE RESIN; NITRATE; NITROGEN; WATER;

COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); CONIFEROUS TREE; GAS EXCHANGE; GRASSLAND; MICROCLIMATE; SEEDLING; SOIL NUTRIENT; SOIL TEMPERATURE; SUCCESSION;

ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LIGHT; METABOLISM; MICROCLIMATE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; POACEAE; SCOTS PINE; SEEDLING; SOIL; TEMPERATURE;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON ISOTOPES; ECOSYSTEM; ION EXCHANGE RESINS; LIGHT; MICROCLIMATE; NITRATES; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; PINUS SYLVESTRIS; PLANT LEAVES; POACEAE; SEEDLING; SOIL; TEMPERATURE; WATER;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; MASSIF CENTRAL; WESTERN EUROPE;

PINUS SYLVESTRIS;

EID: 33744498956     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-006-0379-2     Document Type: Article

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