Coexistence of perennial plants: An embarrassment of niches

Ecology Letters

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1019-1029

  Adler, Peter B ^a   Ellner, Stephen P ^b   Levine, Jonathan M ^c  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Community ecology; Competition; Demography; Extinction; Individual based model; Integral projection model; Niche; Population dynamics

Indexed keywords

ARTEMISIA; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; POACEAE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

ARTEMISIA; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POACEAE; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 77954795354     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2010.01496.x     Document Type: Article

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