Roots in space: A spatially explicit model for below-ground competition in plants

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 274, Issue 1612, 2007, Pages 929-935

  O'Brien, Erin E ^a,b   Brown, Joel S ^b   Moll, Jason D ^b  

^a KECK GRADUATE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Competion; Game theory; Root allocation; Root interactions; Spatial root distribution; Tragedy of the Commons

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL MODELING; GAME THEORY; HETEROGENEITY; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; ROOT COMPETITION; SOIL FERTILITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ARTICLE; FORAGING; GAME; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; MODEL; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PLANT NUTRIENT; PLANT ROOT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SOIL FERTILITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; SOIL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; GAME THEORY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT ROOTS; SOIL;

EID: 34248530019     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2006.0113     Document Type: Article

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