Assembly rules during old-field succession in two contrasting environments

Community Ecology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 31-40

  Ruprecht, E ^a   Bartha, S ^b   Botta Dukat Z ^b   Szabo A ^a  

^a BABE BOLYAI UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Plant interactions; Soil; Spatial organization; Spatial scale; Species association; Structure

Indexed keywords

COEXISTENCE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FOREST SOIL; SUCCESSION;

SERES;

EID: 34447570748     PISSN: 15858553     EISSN: 15882756     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1556/ComEc.8.2007.1.5     Document Type: Article

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