Modelling the combined effect of chemical interference and resource competition on the individual growth of two herbaceous populations

Plant and Soil

Volumn 292, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 95-103

  San Emeterio, Leticia ^a   Damgaard, Christian ^b   Canals, Rosa M ^a  

^a PUBLIC UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRE   (Spain)

^b NERI   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Allelopathy; Lolium rigidum Gaud.; Neighbour effects; Size density response function

Indexed keywords

ALLELOCHEMICAL; ALLELOPATHY; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; GRASS; GROWTH MODELING; HERB; HERBICIDE; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; LEGUME; PHYTOMASS; WEED;

GLYCINE MAX; LOLIUM; LOLIUM RIGIDUM;

EID: 33947538714     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11104-007-9205-9     Document Type: Article

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