The contrasting roles of growth traits and architectural traits in diversity maintenance in clonal plant communities

American Naturalist

Volumn 180, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 693-706

  Wildová, Radka ^a,b   Goldberg, Deborah E ^b   Herben, Tomáš ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Clonal growth; Coexistence; Competitive exclusion; Equalizing mechanisms; Individual based model; Plant architecture; Spatial traits; Species diversity; Stabilizing mechanisms

Indexed keywords

CLONAL GROWTH; CLONAL ORGANISM; COEXISTENCE; GROWTH RATE; MONOCULTURE; PLANT ARCHITECTURE; PLANT COMMUNITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ARTICLE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYPERACEAE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT DISPERSAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

BIODIVERSITY; CAREX PLANT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHENOTYPE; PLANT DISPERSAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION, ASEXUAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84869156113     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/668013     Document Type: Article

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