Consequences of facilitation: One plant's benefit is another plant's cost

Functional Ecology

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 500-508

  Schöb, Christian ^a,b   Prieto, Iván ^a,c   Armas, Cristina ^a,d,e   Pugnaire, Francisco I ^a  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE ECOLOGÍA FUNCIONAL Y EVOLUTIVA   (Spain)

^b SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA Y BIODIVERSIDAD IEB   (Chile)

^e DEPARTAMENTO DE BIOLOGÍA   (Chile)

Author keywords

Alpine; Antagonistic interactions; Bidirectional; Competition; Functional traits; Physiological traits; Reproduction; Resource allocation pattern

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; ANTAGONISM; COLONIZATION; FACILITATION; FITNESS; NITROGEN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SEED SET; SPECIES RICHNESS; WATER USE EFFICIENCY;

ANDALUCIA; BETIC CORDILLERA; SIERRA NEVADA [BETIC CORDILLERA]; SPAIN;

ARENARIA (CARYOPHYLLACEAE); ARENARIA TETRAQUETRA; ERYNGIUM; LOTUS CORNICULATUS; PLANTAGO; PLANTAGO NIVALIS;

EID: 84896032943     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.12185     Document Type: Article

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