An allelopathic plant facilitates species richness in the Mediterranean garrigue

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 176-185

  Ehlers, Bodil K ^a,b   Charpentier, Anne ^a   Grøndahl, Eva ^c  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Aromatic plant communities; Biodiversity; Facilitation; Mediterranean garrigue vegetation; Monoterpenes; Plant plant interactions; Positive plant interactions; Thymus vulgaris

Indexed keywords

ALLELOPATHY; BIODIVERSITY; FACILITATION; GRASS; HERB; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; MONOTERPENE; PLANT COMMUNITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

THYMUS VULGARIS;

EID: 84890315783     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: 13652745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.12171     Document Type: Article

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