Direct and indirect interactions among plants explain counterintuitive positive drought effects on an eastern Mediterranean shrub species

Oikos

Volumn 119, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1601-1609

  Seifan, Merav ^a,b   Tielbörger, Katja ^b   Kadmon, Ronen ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COEXISTENCE; DROUGHT STRESS; LIGHT AVAILABILITY; PLANT COMMUNITY; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; SHRUB; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER STRESS;

SARCOPOTERIUM SPINOSUM;

EID: 77956632803     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2010.18206.x     Document Type: Article

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