Measuring the importance of competition in plant communities: Forum

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 379-384

  Freckleton, Robert P ^a   Watkinson, Andrew R ^b   Rees, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Competition; Competition coefficient; Population dynamics; Population growth rate; Stochastic model

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMPETITIVE ABILITY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GROWTH RATE; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; INVASIBILITY; LIFE CYCLE; MEASUREMENT METHOD; PLANT COMMUNITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH; STOCHASTICITY;

EID: 64349115079     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: 13652745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2009.01497.x     Document Type: Article

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