Do interactions between plant and soil biota change with elevation? A study on Fagus sylvatica

Biology Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 699-701

  Defossez, Emmanuel ^a   Courbaud, Benoít ^a   Marcais, Benoít ^b   Thuiller, Wilfried ^c   Granda, Elena ^d   Kunstler, Georges ^a  

^a Cemagref   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d INSTITUTO DE CIENCIAS AGRARIAS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Elevation gradient; Forest regeneration; Stress gradient hypothesis

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; BIOTIC FACTOR; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DECIDUOUS TREE; ELEVATION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; GREENHOUSE ECOSYSTEM; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; PLANT COMMUNITY; SOIL BIOTA; SURVIVAL; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ALPS; FRANCE;

FAGUS SYLVATICA;

EID: 80053918503     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2011.0236     Document Type: Article

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