Soil water partitioning contributes to species coexistence in tallgrass prairie

Oikos

Volumn 116, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1017-1029

  Nippert, Jesse B ^a,b   Knapp, Alan K ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C3 PLANT; C4 PLANT; COEXISTENCE; GRASS; NICHE PARTITIONING; PRAIRIE; SOIL WATER; WATER STRESS; WATER USE; XYLEM;

KANSAS; KONZA PRAIRIE; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

POACEAE;

EID: 34248399142     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0030-1299.2007.15630.x     Document Type: Article

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