Janzen-Connell effects are widespread and strong enough to maintain diversity in grasslands

Ecology

Volumn 89, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2399-2406

  Petermann, Jana S ^a   Fergus, Alexander J F ^a   Turnbull, Lindsay A ^a   Schmid, Bernhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Coexistence; Community ecology; Density dependence; Functional groups; Grassland; Home away effect; Janzen Connell effect; Negative soil feedback; Stabilizing mechanism

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COEXISTENCE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; GRASSLAND; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; LEGUME; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POACEAE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOIL;

AGRICULTURE; BIODIVERSITY; FABACEAE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; POACEAE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOIL;

EID: 54549097135     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/07-2056.1     Document Type: Article

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