The intimacy between sexual traits and Grime's CSR strategies for orchids coexisting in semi-natural calcareous grassland at the Olive Lawn

Plant Ecology

Volumn 215, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 495-505

  Pierce, Simon ^a   Vagge, Ilda ^a   Brusa, Guido ^b   Cerabolini, Bruno E L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Coexistence; Community assembly; Plant functional type; Species richness; Universal adaptive strategy theory

Indexed keywords

CALCAREOUS GRASSLAND; COEXISTENCE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; FRUITING; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MONOCOTYLEDON; PERSISTENCE; PHENOLOGY; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ITALY; LECCO; LOMBARDY;

OPHRYS; OPHRYS SPHEGODES; ORCHIDACEAE;

EID: 84899435298     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-014-0318-y     Document Type: Article

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