Nurse plant effects on plant species richness in drylands: The role of grazing, rainfall and species specificity

Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 402-410

  Soliveres, Santiago ^a,b   Eldridge, David J ^a   Hemmings, Frank ^a   Maestre, Fernando T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSIDAD REY JUAN CARLOS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Competition; Diversity; Facilitation; Open woodland; Stress gradient hypothesis

Indexed keywords

ARID REGION; DISPERSAL; DOMINANCE; DROUGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FACILITATION; GRAZING; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; NURSE PLANT; PLANT COMMUNITY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SPECIES OCCURRENCE; SPECIES RICHNESS; WOODLAND;

AUSTRALIA;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84869889461     PISSN: 14338319     EISSN: 16180437     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ppees.2012.09.003     Document Type: Article

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