Interspecific neighbor interactions promote the positive diversity-productivity relationship in experimental grassland communities

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Zhang, Yuhua ^a   Wang, Yongfan ^a   Yu, Shixiao ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; GRASSLAND; INTERSPECIFIC RELATIONSHIP; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; LIGHT INTERCEPTION; MONOCULTURE; NONHUMAN; PLANT COMMUNITY; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT HEIGHT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; BIODIVERSITY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PLANT; POACEAE; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

BIODIVERSITY; GRASSLAND; PLANTS; POACEAE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84908587599     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0111434     Document Type: Article

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