Inversion of plant dominance-diversity relationships along a latitudinal stress gradient

Ecology

Volumn 93, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1431-1438

  Richardson, Paul J ^a,d   Macdougall, Andrew S ^a   Stanley, Amanda G ^b,e   Kaye, Thomas N ^b   Dunwiddie, Peter W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b Institute for Applied Ecology   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^e Wilburforce Foundation   (United States)

Author keywords

Community assembly; Competition; Diversity; Dominance; Facilitation; Invasion; Prairies; Stress gradient hypothesis

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; DOMINANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FACILITATION; GRASS; HABITAT LOSS; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; PLANT COMMUNITY; PRAIRIE; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS);

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PLANT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TIME;

BIODIVERSITY; PLANTS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84862270321     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/11-1290.1     Document Type: Article

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