Climatic drivers of plant-plant interactions and diversity in alpine communities

Alpine Botany

Volumn 121, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 63-70

  Kikvidze, Zaal ^a   Michalet, Richard ^b   Brooker, Rob W ^c   Cavieres, Lohengrin A ^d   Lortie, Christopher J ^e   Pugnaire, Francisco I ^f   Callaway, Ragan M ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^c SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

^e YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f DEPARTAMENTO DE ECOLOGÍA FUNCIONAL Y EVOLUTIVA   (Spain)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity drivers; Competition; Facilitation; Latitudinal biodiversity gradient; Stress gradient hypothesis; Water energy balance hypothesis

Indexed keywords

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ELEVATION; ENERGY BALANCE; FACILITATION; GROWING SEASON; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; METEOROLOGY; PLANT COMMUNITY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; WATER BUDGET;

EID: 84863000242     PISSN: 16642201     EISSN: 1664221X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00035-010-0085-x     Document Type: Article

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