Community-level effects of plant traits in a grassland community examined by multispecies model of clonal plant growth

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 234, Issue , 2012, Pages 60-69

  Herben, Tomáš ^a,b   Wildová, Radka ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (Czech Republic)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Competition; Individual based model; Spatial correlation; Species coexistence; Virtual community

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; EMPIRICAL DATA; FIELD DATA; FIELD ESTIMATIONS; FIELD MEASUREMENT; FITTING MODEL; GRADIENT-DESCENT; GRASS SPECIES; INDIVIDUAL-BASED MODELS; MULTI SPECIES MODEL; PARAMETERIZED MODEL; PLANT GROWTH; REFERENCE LEVELS; SINGLE SPECIES; SPATIAL CORRELATIONS; SPATIALLY EXPLICIT; SPECIES COEXISTENCE; SPECIES RICHNESS; STRUCTURAL FEATURE; TARGET SPECIES; VIRTUAL COMMUNITY;

ARCHITECTURE; COMPETITION; DYNAMICS; ECOLOGY; FORECASTING; TIME SERIES;

PARAMETERIZATION;

CLONAL GROWTH; CLONAL ORGANISM; COEXISTENCE; CORRELATION; MONOCULTURE; PLANT ARCHITECTURE; PLANT COMMUNITY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; TIME SERIES; TUSSOCK GRASSLAND;

EID: 84860549160     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2011.06.012     Document Type: Article

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