Phenotypic variation in nurse traits and community feedbacks define an alpine community

Ecology Letters

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 433-443

  Michalet, Richard ^a,b   Xiao, Sa ^a,c   Touzard, Blaise ^a   Smith, David S ^b   Cavieres, Lohengrin A ^d   Callaway, Ragan M ^e   Whitham, Thomas G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^b NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

Common garden experiment; Community feedbacks; Community genetics; Cost of facilitation; Dual lattice model; Facilitation; Foundation species; Physical disturbance

Indexed keywords

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; COEXISTENCE; DISTURBANCE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FACILITATION; FITNESS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HERB; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; SELECTION;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GEUM; HISTOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; PLANT ROOT; PLANT STEM; POPULATION DYNAMICS; UNITED STATES;

ARIZONA; ECOSYSTEM; GENOTYPE; GEUM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHENOTYPE; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT ROOTS; PLANT STEMS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SELECTION, GENETIC;

ARIZONA; UNITED STATES;

GEUM ROSSII;

EID: 79953874239     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2011.01605.x     Document Type: Article

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