A new hammer to crack an old nut: interspecific competitive resource capture by plants is regulated by nutrient supply, not climate.

Although rarely acknowledged, our understanding of how competition is modulated by environmental drivers is severely hampered by our dependence on indirect measurements of outcomes, rather than the process of competition. To overcome this, we made direct measurements of plant competition for soil ni...

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Main Authors: Clare J Trinder, Rob W Brooker, Hazel Davidson, David Robinson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/22247775/?tool=EBI