Climate variability has a stabilizing effect on the coexistence of prairie grasses

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 103, Issue 34, 2006, Pages 12793-12798

  Adler, Peter B ^a,b   HilleRisLambers, Janneke ^b   Kyriakidis, Phaedon C ^b   Guan, Qingfeng ^b   Levine, Jonathan M ^b  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Competition; Grassland; Plant community; Population dynamics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BOUTELOUA CURTIPENDULA; BOUTELOUA HIRSUTA; CLIMATE CHANGE; GRASS; GROWTH RATE; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRAIRIE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZACHYRIUM SCOPARIUM; SPECIES DIVERSITY; UNITED STATES;

CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; POACEAE; TIME FACTORS;

POACEAE;

EID: 33748032714     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0600599103     Document Type: Article

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