Resource availability mediates the importance of priority effects in plant community assembly and ecosystem function

Oikos

Volumn 122, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 84-94

  Kardol, Paul ^a,b   Souza, Lara ^a   Classen, Aimée T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARRIVAL TIME; CARBON DIOXIDE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DIVERGENCE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PHYTOMASS; PLANT COMMUNITY; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SEEDLING; SOIL FERTILITY; SOIL NUTRIENT; SOIL-VEGETATION INTERACTION; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 84871494488     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2012.20546.x     Document Type: Article

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