Competition on productivity gradients-what do we expect?

Ecology Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 291-298

  Rees, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Competition intensity; Grime Tilman debate; Productivity; Resource competition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84931748942     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12037     Document Type: Article

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