Species richness and evenness respond in a different manner to propagule density in developing prairie microcosm communities

Plant Ecology

Volumn 190, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 259-273

  Wilsey, Brian ^a   Stirling, Gray ^b  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Community assembly; Competition; Evenness; Grassland; Migration; Prairie; Propagule pressure; Richness; Seedling emergence

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DICOTYLEDON; DIVERSITY INDEX; GREENHOUSE ECOSYSTEM; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; MICROCOSM; PLANT COMMUNITY; POPULATION DENSITY; PRAIRIE; PROPAGULE; SEEDLING EMERGENCE; SPECIES EVENNESS; SPECIES RICHNESS;

RUDBECKIA; RUDBECKIA HIRTA;

EID: 34247575771     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-006-9206-4     Document Type: Article

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