Competition increases with abiotic stress and regulates the diversity of biological soil crusts
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Competition increases with abiotic stress and regulates the diversity of biological soil crusts
1. The stress-gradient hypothesis (SGH) predicts that the frequency of facilitative and competitive interactions will vary inversely across abiotic stress gradients, with facilitation being more common when abiotic stress is high. The effect of competition intensity on species richness is generally thought to be negative, but tests along true stress gradients are lacking. This body of research ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Ecology
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0022-0477,1365-2745
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2010.01647.x