Age-related change in canopy traits shifts conspecific facilitation to interference in a semi-arid shrubland

Ecography

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 459-470

  Reisman Berman, Orna ^a,b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE STRUCTURE; AGE-RELATED DIFFERENCE; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; CONSPECIFIC; FOLIATION; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; PLANT COMMUNITY; POPULATION DENSITY; RECRUITMENT; SEMIARID REGION; SHADING; SHRUB; SHRUBLAND; SURVIVAL;

ASIA; EURASIA; ISRAEL; MIDDLE EAST;

SARCOPOTERIUM SPINOSUM;

EID: 34547914474     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2007.0906-7590.05066.x     Document Type: Article

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