Plant functional traits and the multidimensional nature of species coexistence

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 797-802

  Kraft, Nathan J B ^a   Godoy, Oscar ^b,c   Levine, Jonathan M ^d  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c INSTITUTO DE RECURSOS NATURALES Y AGROBIOLOGÍA DE SEVILLA   (Spain)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Coexistence; Community assembly; Competition; Functional traits

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL PLANT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL TRAIT; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHENOLOGY; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PLANT LEAF; PLANT PARAMETERS; PLANT ROOT; PLANT SEED; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROOTING; SPECIES COEXISTENCE; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

PLANT PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84922439700     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1413650112     Document Type: Article

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