Plant competitive ability and the transitivity of competitive hierarchies change with plant age

Plant Ecology

Volumn 213, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 15-23

  Zhang, Shiting ^a,b   Lamb, Eric G ^b  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Competitive effect; Competitive hierarchy; Competitive response; Competitive transitivity; Life stage; Plant age

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ADULT; AGING; COMPETITIVE ABILITY; GREENHOUSE ECOSYSTEM; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; PLANT COMMUNITY; SEEDLING; SUCCESSION;

EID: 83855162748     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-011-0002-4     Document Type: Article

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