Disturbance-mediated competition between perennial plants along a resource supply gradient

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 99, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1219-1228

  Brewer, J Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

Author keywords

Clonal growth; Competition; Disturbance; Life history; Modular demography; Plant plant interactions; Resilience; Resistance; Storage; Stress tolerance

Indexed keywords

CLONAL GROWTH; COEXISTENCE; COMPETITIVE ABILITY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISTURBANCE; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; GENET; GROWTH FORM; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; LIFE HISTORY; LOTKA-VOLTERRA MODEL; MORTALITY; PERENNIAL PLANT; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT COMMUNITY; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SOIL FERTILITY;

EID: 80051712859     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: 13652745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2011.01846.x     Document Type: Article

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