On the balance between niche and neutral processes as drivers of community structure along a successional gradient: Insights from alpine and sub-alpine meadow communities

Annals of Botany

Volumn 100, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 807-812

  Chu, Cheng Jin ^a   Wang, You Shi ^a   Du, Guo Zhen ^a   Maestre, Fernando T ^b   Luo, Yan Jiang ^c   Wang, Gang ^a  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSIDAD REY JUAN CARLOS   (Spain)

^c KEY LABORATORY OF TROPICAL FOREST ECOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Average individual biomass; Meadow; Neutral theory; Niche; Seed mass; Successional gradient

Indexed keywords

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; MEADOW; NICHE; PLANT COMMUNITY; SUBALPINE ENVIRONMENT; SUCCESSION;

ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; PLANT; PLANT SEED; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT;

ECOSYSTEM; PLANTS; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEEDS;

EID: 34848888649     PISSN: 03057364     EISSN: 10958290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcm166     Document Type: Article

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