Competitive interactions across a soil fertility gradient in a multispecies forest

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 806-818

  David Coates, K ^a,b   Lilles, Erica B ^b   Astrup, Rasmus ^b,c  

^a RESEARCH BRANCH   (Canada)

^b Bulkley Valley Centre for Natural Resources Research and Management   (Canada)

^c NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF BIOECONOMY RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Crowding; Environmental gradient; Grime Tilman debate; Light; Neighbourhood models; Plant competition; Plant plant interactions; Productivity; Soil moisture and nutrients; Tree growth

Indexed keywords

CONIFEROUS FOREST; DOMINANCE; GROWTH RATE; GROWTH RESPONSE; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; SOIL FERTILITY; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL NUTRIENT;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA;

PICEA;

EID: 84876695245     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: 13652745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.12072     Document Type: Article

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