Species-Driven Phases and Increasing Structure in Early-Successional Plant Communities
Abstract Successional phases describe changes in ecological communities that proceed in steps rather than continuously. Despite their importance for the understanding of ecosystem development, there still exists no reliable definition of phases and no quantitative measure of phase transitions. In or...
Veröffentlicht in: | The American Naturalist. - University of Chicago Press. - 181(2013), 1, Seite E17-E27 |
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Schlagworte: | community assembly null model analysis primary succession spatial analysis species co-occurrence successional phase Physical sciences Biological sciences Mathematics Behavioral sciences |