Microhabitat amelioration and reduced competition among understorey plants as drivers of facilitation across environmental gradients: Towards a unifying framework

Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 247-258

  Soliveres, Santiago ^a,b   Eldridge, David J ^c   Maestre, Fernando T ^a   Bowker, Matthew A ^a   Tighe, Matthew ^d   Escudero, Adrián ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD REY JUAN CARLOS   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE RECURSOS NATURALES   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Competitive exclusion model; Niche expansion; Niche segregation; Plant plant interactions; Richness biomass relationship; Stress gradient hypothesis

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ARCHING; COEXISTENCE; ECOPHYSIOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; EXCLUSION EXPERIMENT; FACILITATION; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; MICROHABITAT; NICHE; NURSE PLANT; PHYTOMASS; PLANT COMMUNITY; RAINFALL; SEMIARID REGION; SPECIES RICHNESS; UNDERSTORY;

AUSTRALIA; SPAIN;

POACEAE;

EID: 82455199246     PISSN: 14338319     EISSN: 16180437     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ppees.2011.06.001     Document Type: Article

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