Biotic interactions limit species richness in an alpine plant community, especially under experimental warming

Oikos

Volumn 123, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 71-78

  Olsen, Siri L ^a   Klanderud, Kari ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); GLOBAL WARMING; GROWTH RESPONSE; INVASIBILITY; PLANT COMMUNITY; RESIDENT POPULATION; SEEDLING; SPECIES RICHNESS; STOCHASTICITY;

EID: 84890799222     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2013.00336.x     Document Type: Article

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