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Tag - Species coexistence
Erin Zimmerman
Contrasting soil-texture niches, competitive abilities, and coexistence
When closely related plant species occur in the same region, their distributions at small spatial scales are expected to depend on whether they have evolved different tolerances to variation in the environment. Whether...
AoBPLANTS
Light partitioning in temperate rain forests
In the temperate rainforest of southern Chile, Fajardo and Siefert find that interspecific differences in the leaf mass per area (LMA) trait can explain the fine-scale partitioning of light availability gradients by...
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Density × species evenness effects on coexistence and growth
Collet et al. study a tree plantation that mixes beech and sycamore according to a double gradient of density and species’ proportion, and find that density and tree size are the primary factors determining individual...
