Large niche differences emerge at the recruitment stage to stabilize grassland coexistence

Ecological Monographs

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 373-392

  Chu, Chengjin ^a,b   Adler, Peter B ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Biodiversity maintenance; Community ecology; Demography; Fitness differences; Grassland; Individual based model; Integral projection model; Invasion growth rate; Niche differences; Positive interactions; Species coexistence; Western United States

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COEXISTENCE; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; DEMOGRAPHY; FITNESS; GRASSLAND; GROWTH RATE; INDIVIDUAL-BASED MODEL; LONG-TERM CHANGE; NICHE OVERLAP; NICHE PARTITIONING; PLANT COMMUNITY; POPULATION MODELING; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SHRUBLAND; SURVIVAL;

NORTH AMERICA;

POACEAE;

EID: 84938936866     PISSN: 00129615     EISSN: 15577015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/14-1741.1     Document Type: Article

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