Soil characteristics play a key role in modeling nutrient competition in plant communities

Ecology

Volumn 85, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 2200-2214

  Raynaud, Xavier ^a   Leadley, Paul W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

Author keywords

Nutrient diffusion; Plant uptake kinetics; Resource competition; Root morphology

Indexed keywords

INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; PLANT COMMUNITY; SOIL NUTRIENT; SOIL PROPERTY;

EID: 8144219856     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/03-0817     Document Type: Article

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