Facilitative interactions do not wane with warming at high elevations in the Andes

Oecologia

Volumn 170, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 575-584

  Cavieres, Lohengrin A ^a,b   Sierra Almeida, Angela ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

^b INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA Y BIODIVERSIDAD IEB   (Chile)

Author keywords

Alpine; Climate change; Cushion plants; Facilitation; Global warming; Neighbor removal; Nurse effect; Photochemical efficiency; Positive interactions

Indexed keywords

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; BIOMASS; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FACILITATION; GLOBAL WARMING; PLANT COMMUNITY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ANDES;

AZORELLA MADREPORICA; HORDEUM; HORDEUM COMOSUM;

EID: 84866310242     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-012-2316-x     Document Type: Article

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