Understory plant diversity is related to higher variability of vegetative mobility of coexisting species

Oecologia

Volumn 159, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 355-361

  Moora, Mari ^a   Öpik, Maarja ^a   Zobel, Kristjan ^a   Zobel, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Diversity; Forest field layer; Plant coexistence; Rhizome; Vegetative growth

Indexed keywords

COEXISTENCE; CONIFEROUS FOREST; MOBILITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; SUCCESSION; VEGETATION;

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PLANT; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

PLANT PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; PLANTS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

BALTIC STATES; ESTONIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 60449093008     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-008-1209-5     Document Type: Article

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