The organization of plant communities: Negative plant-soil feedbacks and semiarid grasslands

Ecology

Volumn 93, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 2377-2385

  Reinhart, Kurt O ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Coexistence; Community composition; Dominance; Mixed grass prairie; Rarity; Relative abundance; Soil feedback

Indexed keywords

COEXISTENCE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DOMINANCE; GRASSLAND; PLANT COMMUNITY; PRAIRIE; RARITY; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SEMIARID REGION;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; PLANT; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; POACEAE; SOIL;

ECOSYSTEM; PLANT PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; PLANTS; POACEAE; SOIL;

EID: 84869199473     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/12-0486.1     Document Type: Article

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