Species-driven phases and increasing structure in early-successional plant communities

American Naturalist

Volumn 181, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Zaplata, Markus K ^a   Winter, Susanne ^b   Fischer, Anton ^a   Kollmann, Johannes ^a   Ulrich, Werner ^c  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c NICOLAUS COPERNICUS UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Community assembly; Null model analysis; Primary succession; Spatial analysis; Species co occurrence; Successional phase

Indexed keywords

COEXISTENCE; HOMOGENEITY; PHASE TRANSITION; PLANT COMMUNITY; PRIMARY SUCCESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STOICHIOMETRY; TEMPORAL PERIOD; TERMINOLOGY;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOTA; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; GERMANY; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

BIOTA; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; GERMANY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

GERMANY;

EID: 84871289430     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/668571     Document Type: Article

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