Living close to your neighbors: The importance of both competition and facilitation in plant communities

Ecology

Volumn 95, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 2213-2223

  Wright, Alexandra ^a,b   Schnitzer, Stefan A ^b   Reich, Peter B ^c,d  

^a GERMAN CENTRE FOR INTEGRATIVE BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH IDIV HALLE JENA LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^d WESTERN SYDNEY UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Diversity; Environmental severity; Net effects; Ontogeny; Pinus strobus; Stress gradient hypothesis; Theoretical ecology

Indexed keywords

NITRIC ACID DERIVATIVE; WATER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; PINE; POPULATION DENSITY; SEEDLING; SOIL; UNITED STATES;

ECOSYSTEM; MINNESOTA; NITRATES; PINUS; POPULATION DENSITY; SEEDLING; SOIL; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; WATER;

EID: 84905647608     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/13-1855.1     Document Type: Article

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