Costs of persistence and the spread of competing seeders and sprouters

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 96, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 679-686

  Higgins, Steven I ^a   Flores, Olivier ^b   Schurr, Frank M ^c  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b CENTRE D ECOLOGIE FONCTIONNELLE ET EVOLUTIVE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coexistence; Dispersal; Fire; Iteroparous; Life history strategies; Lottery models; Plant migration; Semelparous; Shrublands; Sprouting

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COEXISTENCE; COLONIZATION; DEMOGRAPHY; DISPERSAL; EVOLUTION; EXTINCTION; FECUNDITY; FIRE; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; LIFE HISTORY; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); REPRODUCTION; SHRUBLAND; TRADE-OFF;

EID: 44949089797     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: 13652745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2008.01391.x     Document Type: Article

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