Above- versus below-ground competitive effects and responses of a guild of temperate tree species

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 97, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 118-130

  Coates, K David ^a   Canham, Charles D ^b   LePage, Philip T ^a  

^a RESEARCH BRANCH   (Canada)

^b CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Competition coefficients; Competitive interactions; Complex forests; Complex stands; Crowding; Interspecific competition; Intraspecific competition; Neighbourhood models; Shading; Size dependency of growth

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; SHADING; STAND STRUCTURE;

CONIFEROPHYTA;

EID: 57649118576     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: 13652745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2008.01458.x     Document Type: Article

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