Partitioning net interactions among plants along altitudinal gradients to study community responses to climate change

Functional Ecology

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 75-86

  Michalet, Richard ^a   Schöb, Christian ^b   Lortie, Christopher J ^c   Brooker, Rob W ^b   Callaway, Ragan M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^b SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alpine communities; Competitive effects; Competitive responses; Environmental severity effects; Facilitation; Meta analysis; Neighbour trait effects; Species range shifts

Indexed keywords

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; ALTITUDINAL ZONATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FACILITATION; FUNCTIONAL RESPONSE; META-ANALYSIS; NICHE PARTITIONING; PLANT COMMUNITY;

EID: 84892882592     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.12136     Document Type: Article

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