Understanding Plant Community Responses to Combinations of Biotic and Abiotic Factors in Different Phases of the Plant Growth Cycle

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Wood, Kevin A ^a,b   Stillman, Richard A ^b   Clarke, Ralph T ^b   Daunt, Francis ^a   O'Hare, Matthew T ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABIOTIC STRESS; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; BIOMASS PRODUCTION; BIOTIC STRESS; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FLOWERING; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GROWTH CURVE; HERBIVORY; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; NONHUMAN; PASTURE; PLANT COMMUNITY; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT RESPONSE; PLANT SHADING; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RIPARIAN ECOSYSTEM; RIVER ECOSYSTEM; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES DOMINANCE; SPECIES RICHNESS; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; VEGETATION; WATER TEMPERATURE; WATER TRANSPORT;

ANIMALS; BIOMASS; BIOTA; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; PLANTS; SEASONS;

CYGNUS; CYGNUS OLOR;

EID: 84869099787     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0049824     Document Type: Article

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