Dominant species and diversity: Linking relative abundance to controls of species establishment

American Naturalist

Volumn 174, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 850-862

  Gilbert, Benjamin ^a,b   Turkington, Roy ^a   Srivastava, Diane S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Boreal forest; Coexistence; Colonization; Competition; Facilitation; Resource complementarity

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIOMASS; BOREAL FOREST; COEXISTENCE; COLONIZATION; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); FACILITATION; NEW SPECIES; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; SPECIES DIVERSITY; UNDERSTORY;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEEDLING; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; THEORETICAL MODEL; TREE;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PLANTS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEEDLING; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TREES;

EID: 72449207667     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/647903     Document Type: Article

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