Modulating effects of ontogeny on the outcome of plant-plant interactions along stress gradients

New Phytologist

Volumn 200, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 7-9

  Armas, Cristina ^a,b   Schöb, Christian ^c   Gutiérrez, Julio R ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA Y BIODIVERSIDAD IEB   (Chile)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE BIOLOGÍA   (Chile)

^c SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Environmental gradients; Global change; Ontogeny; Plant communities; Plant plant interactions; Population dynamics; Stress gradient hypothesis

Indexed keywords

AGROSTIS; APIACEAE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENTS; GLOBAL CHANGE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; NOTE; ONTOGENY; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PLANT COMMUNITY; PLANT-PLANT INTERACTIONS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STRESS GRADIENT HYPOTHESIS;

ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENTS; GLOBAL CHANGE; ONTOGENY; PLANT COMMUNITIES; PLANT-PLANT INTERACTIONS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STRESS GRADIENT HYPOTHESIS;

AGROSTIS; APIACEAE; ECOSYSTEM; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84882946095     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nph.12460     Document Type: Note

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