Experimental demonstration of the importance of competition under disturbance

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 29, 2010, Pages 12925-12929

  Violle, Cyrille ^a,b,c   Pu, Zhichao ^a   Jiang, Lin ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b The University of Arizona   (United States)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Competitive interactions; Species coexistence; Species extinction; Species richness

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ANGULAR LEAF SPOT; COMPETITIVE ABILITY; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROCOSM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTIST LIFE CYCLE STAGE; SPECIES COEXISTENCE; SPECIES EXTINCTION; SPECIES RICHNESS;

BIODIVERSITY; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ECOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL PHENOMENA; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS;

PROTISTA;

EID: 77955609150     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1000699107     Document Type: Article

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