The role of reproductive plant traits and biotic interactions in the dynamics of semi-arid plant communities

Theoretical Population Biology

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 289-297

  Pueyo, Y ^a   Kefi S ^b   Diaz Sierra R ^c   Alados, C L ^a   Rietkerk, M ^d  

^a INSTITUTO PIRENAICO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE EDUCACIÓN A DISTANCIA   (Spain)

^d UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Competition; Facilitation; Scale dependent feedback; Seed dispersal; Self organization; Vegetative propagation

Indexed keywords

WATER;

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; BIOMASS; BIOTIC FACTOR; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FECUNDITY; GROWTH RATE; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; PLANT COMMUNITY; RAINFALL; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; SEED DISPERSAL; SELF ORGANIZATION; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL WATER; SUCCESSION; VEGETATIVE PROPAGATION;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PLANT; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SEED DISPERSAL;

BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; PLANTS; REPRODUCTION; SEED DISPERSAL; WATER;

EID: 77958496173     PISSN: 00405809     EISSN: 10960325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tpb.2010.09.001     Document Type: Article

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