Convergence patterns and multiple species interactions in a designed plant mixture of five species

Oecologia

Volumn 151, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 499-511

  Suter, Matthias ^a   Ramseier, Dieter ^a   Guesewell, Sabine ^a   Connolly, John ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Community change; Competition; Facilitation; Simplex design; Water nutrients

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; WATER;

ABUNDANCE; BIOMASS; CONVERGENCE; FEN; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; INTRASPECIFIC INTERACTION; MONOCOTYLEDON; NICHE PARTITIONING; NUTRIENT; PERENNIAL PLANT; WATER LEVEL;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECOSYSTEM; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; SWITZERLAND;

BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEM; LINEAR MODELS; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SWITZERLAND; WATER;

CAREX ELATA; LYCOPUS; LYCOPUS EUROPAEUS; LYSIMACHIA VULGARIS; MENTHA; MENTHA AQUATICA;

EID: 33847645508     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-006-0594-x     Document Type: Article

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