Publication at Faculty of Science |
2003
Abstract
1 We used a series of removal experiments to examine how species response to competition and climatic differences varied in three different years. We tested the interaction between removal of the dominant grass species, Festuca rubra , and year-to-year e
Keywords
competition environment-competition interaction Festuca rubra growth forms randomization tests redundancy analysis year-to-year variation removal experiment temporal heterogeneity variable environments community composition climatic variability vegetation dynamics species coexistence population-dynamics arctic plants responses temperature manipulations