From facilitation to competition: Temperature-driven shift in dominant plant interactions affects population dynamics in seminatural grasslands

Global Change Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 1915-1926

  Olsen, Siri L ^a,b   Töpper, Joachim P ^c,d   Skarpaas, Olav ^b   Vandvik, Vigdis ^d   Klanderud, Kari ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c WESTERN NORWAY UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Veronica; Biotic interactions; Climate change; Integral projection model; Plant population dynamics; Removal experiment; Temperature and precipitation gradients; Viola

Indexed keywords

BIOTIC FACTOR; CLIMATE CHANGE; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; GRASSLAND; PLANT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); TEMPERATURE GRADIENT;

VERONICA;

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; GRASSLAND; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; NORWAY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; VERONICA; VIOLA;

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL WARMING; GRASSLAND; NORWAY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; VERONICA; VIOLA;

EID: 84961927468     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.13241     Document Type: Article

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