Variation in plant performance in a grassland: Species-specific and neighbouring root mass effects

Abstract

Question: What characteristics of local biotic neighbourhood is the best proxy of competitive effects experienced by plants in a herbaceous community: (1) total above-ground biomass, (2) root mass or (3) relative above-ground abundance of selected specie

Keywords

• above-ground
• Anthoxanthum alpinum
• below-ground
• competitive effect
• Festuca rubra
• species-specific
• mountain grassland
• festuca-rubra
• competitive performance
• removal experiment
• temporal patterns
• spatial-pattern
• old-field
• communities
• dynamics
• growth