Local immigration, competition from dominant guilds, and the ecological assembly of high-diversity pine savannas

Ecology

Volumn 90, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2745-2754

  Myers, Jonathan A ^a   Harms, Kyle E ^a,b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Bunchgrass; Community assembly; Dispersal assembly; Dominant guild; Local immigration; Longleaf pine savanna; Niche assembly; Recruitment limitation; Shrub; Species coexistence; Species rich community

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); DISPERSAL; IMMIGRATION; NICHE; PLANT COMMUNITY; RARE SPECIES; SAVANNA; SHRUB; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; PINE; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ECOSYSTEM; PINUS; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

CAREX; PINUS PALUSTRIS;

EID: 70349975612     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/08-1953.1     Document Type: Article

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