Changes in life history trait composition during undisturbed old-field succession

Flora: Morphology, Distribution, Functional Ecology of Plants

Volumn 203, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 508-522

  Dölle, Michaela ^a   Bernhardt Römermann, Markus ^a   Parth, Andreas ^a   Schmidt, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Abandoned field; Life history traits; Long term study; Permanent plots

Indexed keywords

ABANDONED LAND; ARABLE LAND; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GARDEN; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; OLD FIELD; SPECIES RICHNESS; SUCCESSION; VASCULAR PLANT; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY;

ANIMALIA; SERES; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 48949116048     PISSN: 03672530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.flora.2007.07.005     Document Type: Article

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