Belowground facilitation and competition in young tree species mixtures

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 265, Issue , 2012, Pages 191-200

  Lei, Pifeng ^a,b   Scherer Lorenzen, Michael ^a   Bauhus, Jürgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY OF FORESTRY AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Fine root morphology; Morphological plasticity; Niche complementarity; Size asymmetric competition; Tree species richness

Indexed keywords

BASAL AREA; BASAL AREA INCREMENT; BELOWGROUND COMPETITION; COMMUNITY STABILITY; COMPETITIVE ABILITY; DOMINANT SPECIES; FAGUS SYLVATICA; FINE ROOTS; GROWING SEASON; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; MIXED FORESTS; NICHE COMPLEMENTARITY; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENTS; PICEA ABIES; PLANT COMMUNITIES; PROLIFERATION RATE; PSEUDOTSUGA MENZIESII; QUERCUS PETRAEA; SURFACE AREA; TREE SPECIES; YOUNG TREES;

BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; MORPHOLOGY; TOXICITY;

FORESTRY;

BASAL AREA; CONIFEROUS FOREST; FACILITATION; FINE ROOT; GROWING SEASON; GROWTH RATE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; MIXED FOREST; MORPHOLOGY; NICHE OVERLAP; PLANT COMMUNITY; SAPLING; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ANATOMY; BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; FORESTRY; PLASTICITY; ROOTS; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; TOXICITY; TREES;

ABIES; CONIFEROPHYTA; FAGUS; FAGUS SYLVATICA; PICEA ABIES; PSEUDOTSUGA; PSEUDOTSUGA MENZIESII; QUERCUS PETRAEA;

EID: 82055191590     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2011.10.033     Document Type: Article

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