Evidence from individual inference for high-dimensional coexistence: Long-term experiments on recruitment response

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Clark, James S ^a,b   Soltoff, Benjamin D ^a   Powell, Amanda S ^a   Read, Quentin D ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANOPY; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; GROWTH RATE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MORUS; MORUS RUBRA; NONHUMAN; OAK; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION MOVEMENT PATTERN; QUERCUS PRINUS; SPECIES COEXISTENCE; SPECIES COMPARISON; TAXONOMIC IDENTIFICATION; TAXONOMIC RANK; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDICTIVE VALUE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME;

MORUS RUBRA; QUERCUS PRINUS;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENT; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MORUS; PLANT PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; PLANTS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; QUERCUS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84857678396     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0030050     Document Type: Article

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