Can community composition be predicted from pairwise species interactions?

Plant Ecology

Volumn 195, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 77-85

  Engel, E Cayenne ^a,b   Weltzin, Jake F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Abundance hierarchy; Competitive hierarchy; Field experiment; Old field; Species composition

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); DOMINANCE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FIELDWORK; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; OLD FIELD; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SPECIES RICHNESS;

EID: 38749136666     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-007-9300-2     Document Type: Article

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