Variation in local density results in a positive correlation between plant neighbor sizes

American Naturalist

Volumn 173, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 705-708

  Wyszomirski, Tomasz ^a   Weiner, Jacob ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ECOLOGICAL ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Available area; Moran's I; Neighboring domains; Spatial autocorrelation; Symmetric competition; Voronoi tessellations

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; PLANT COMMUNITY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION VIABILITY ANALYSIS; SIGNALING; SIMULATION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STOCHASTICITY;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PLANT; POPULATION DENSITY;

MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANTS; POPULATION DENSITY;

EID: 67650215675     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/597612     Document Type: Article

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