Impacts of seedling herbivory on plant competition and implications for species coexistence

Annals of Botany

Volumn 103, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1347-1353

  Hanley, M E ^a   Sykes, R J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Growth defence trade off; Lottery models; Plant size variability; Plant animal interactions; Seedling acceptability; Seedling defence; Spatio temporal niches; Trifolium pratense; Trifolium repens

Indexed keywords

COEXISTENCE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DEFENSE MECHANISM; DOMINANCE; GRANIVORY; GROWTH RATE; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; LEGUME; MORTALITY; PHYTOMASS; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); REGENERATION; SNAIL; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TRADE-OFF;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CLOVER; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

BIOMASS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRIFOLIUM;

ANIMALIA; GASTROPODA; HELIX ASPERSA; TRIFOLIUM; TRIFOLIUM PRATENSE; TRIFOLIUM REPENS;

EID: 66249148989     PISSN: 03057364     EISSN: 10958290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcp081     Document Type: Article

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