Measuring plant interactions: A new comparative index

Ecology

Volumn 85, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 2682-2686

  Armas, Cristina ^a   Ordiales, Ramón ^a   Pugnaire, Francisco I ^a  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE ECOLOGÍA FUNCIONAL Y EVOLUTIVA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Competition; Facilitation; Interaction indices; Interaction intensity

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); FACILITATION; INDEX METHOD; PLANT;

EID: 7544251733     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/03-0650     Document Type: Article

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