Functional tradeoffs determine species coexistence via the storage effect

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 28, 2009, Pages 11641-11645

  Angert, Amy L ^a,b   Huxman, Travis E ^b,c   Chesson, Peter ^b   Venable, D Lawrence ^b  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Coexistence mechanism; Functional trait; Population dynamics; Specific leaf area

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COLONY; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES COEXISTENCE; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARIZONA; DESERT CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANTS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 67650866717     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0904512106     Document Type: Article

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