What does the stress-gradient hypothesis predict? Resolving the discrepancies

Oikos

Volumn 119, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1546-1552

  Malkinson, Dan ^a   Tielbörger, Katja ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; FITNESS; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

EID: 77956623139     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2010.18375.x     Document Type: Article

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