Horizontal, but not vertical, biotic interactions affect fine-scale plant distribution patterns in a low-energy system

Ecology

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 671-682

  Le Roux, Peter C ^a   Lenoir, Jonathan ^b   Pellissier, Loïc ^c,d   Wisz, Mary S ^d,e   Luoto, Miska ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE PICARDIE JULES VERNE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^d AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^e GREENLAND INSTITUTE OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (Greenland)

Author keywords

Alpine; Arctic; Competition; Disturbance; Facilitation; Herbivory; Mountain tundra; Species distribution modeling; Trophic interactions

Indexed keywords

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; DISTURBANCE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FACILITATION; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; TROPHIC INTERACTION; TUNDRA; VASCULAR PLANT;

ANIMAL; ARCTIC; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; FINLAND; HERBIVORY; PLANT; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ARCTIC REGIONS; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; FINLAND; HERBIVORY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; PLANTS;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 84876132151     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/12-1482.1     Document Type: Article

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