Plant-soil feedback links negative distance dependence and light gradient partitioning during seedling establishment

Ecology

Volumn 94, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 780-786

  Mccarthy Neumann, Sarah ^a   Nez, Inésibá ^b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA; Horner McLaughlin Woods; Irradiance; Janzen Connell hypothesis; Plant abundance; Plant soil feedbacks; Resource partitioning; Seedling survival; Shade tolerance; Soil pathogens

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; COEXISTENCE; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; CONSPECIFIC; IRRADIANCE; LIGHT; MORTALITY; NICHE PARTITIONING; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; SHADE TOLERANCE; SURVIVAL; SURVIVORSHIP; TREE;

ANN ARBOR; MICHIGAN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84876772911     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/12-1338.1     Document Type: Article

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