Clonal mobility and its implications for spatio-temporal patterns of plant communities: What do we need to know next?

Oikos

Volumn 119, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 802-806

  Zobel, Martin ^a   Moora, M ^b   Herben, Tomáš ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^b INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (Czech Republic)

^c CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLONAL GROWTH; CLONAL ORGANISM; COEXISTENCE; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; PLANT COMMUNITY; SEED DISPERSAL; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES RICHNESS; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

EID: 77953087691     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2010.18296.x     Document Type: Article

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