Niche complementarity due to plasticity in resource use: Plant partitioning of chemical N forms

Ecology

Volumn 91, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 3252-3260

  Ashton, Isabel W ^a   Miller, Amy E ^a,b   Bowman, William D ^b   Suding, Katharine N ^c  

^a NATIONAL PARK SERVICE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alpine dry meadow; Biodiversity; Chemical nitrogen forms; Competition; Niwot Ridge, Colorado, USA; Phenotypic plasticity; Resource partitioning

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN;

AMMONIUM; COEXISTENCE; COMPETITIVE ABILITY; COMPLEMENTARITY; DOMINANCE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; GROWING SEASON; GROWTH RESPONSE; MEADOW; NICHE PARTITIONING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PLANT COMMUNITY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RESOURCE USE; SPECIALIZATION; SPECIATION (CHEMISTRY); TRACER;

ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; METABOLISM; PLANT; POPULATION DENSITY;

ECOSYSTEM; NITROGEN; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; PLANTS; POPULATION DENSITY;

COLORADO; FRONT RANGE; NIWOT RIDGE; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77955376104     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/09-1849.1     Document Type: Article

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