Self-assembling plants and integration across ecological scales

Annals of Botany

Volumn 99, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1023-1034

  Hunt, Roderick ^a   Colasanti, R L ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Cellular automata; Community; Emergent properties; L system; Population; Self assembling plants; Vegetation dynamics

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY RULE; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; BIODIVERSITY; ECOPHYSIOLOGY; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; MORPHOLOGY; PLANT COMMUNITY;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PLANT; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; PLANTS; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

EID: 34548450346     PISSN: 03057364     EISSN: 10958290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcm037     Document Type: Article

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