What drives retrogressive succession? Plant strategies to tolerate infertile and poorly drained soils

Functional Ecology

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 714-722

  Gaxiola, Aurora ^a   McNeill, Stephen M ^b   Coomes, David A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Adventitious roots; Gymnosperm; New Zealand; Root; Shoot ratio; Specific root length; Stress tolerator; Temperate rain forest; Waitutu chronosequence

Indexed keywords

CHRONOSEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS; GROWTH RATE; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PHOSPHORUS; RAINFOREST; ROOT SYSTEM; ROOT-SHOOT RATIO; SOIL DRAINAGE; SOIL FERTILITY; SOIL WATER; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; SUCCESSION; SURVIVAL; TEMPERATE FOREST; WATERLOGGING;

NEW ZEALAND;

GYMNOSPERMAE;

EID: 78751653043     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2010.01688.x     Document Type: Article

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