Amount or pattern? Grassland responses to the heterogeneity and availability of two key resources

Ecology

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 501-511

  Maestre, Fernando T ^a,b   Reynolds, James F ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD REY JUAN CARLOS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Anthoxantum odoratum; Competition; Global change; Holcus lanatus; Lolium perenne; Microcosm; Plant assemblages; Plantago lanceolata; Resource availability; Resource heterogeneity; Trifolium repens

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN; WATER;

BIOMASS ALLOCATION; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GRASS; GRASSLAND; HETEROGENEITY; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM; WATER AVAILABILITY;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CLOVER; ECOSYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; POACEAE; TIME;

BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEM; NITROGEN; POACEAE; TIME FACTORS; TRIFOLIUM; WATER;

ANTHOXANTHUM; HOLCUS; HOLCUS LANATUS; LOLIUM; LOLIUM PERENNE; PLANTAGO; PLANTAGO LANCEOLATA; TRIFOLIUM REPENS;

EID: 34247140070     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/06-0421     Document Type: Article

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