The Resource-Ratio Hypothesis of Plant Succession
- 1 June 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by University of Chicago Press in The American Naturalist
- Vol. 125 (6), 827-852
- https://doi.org/10.1086/284382
Abstract
The resource-ratio hypothesis assumes that each plant species is a superior competitor for a particular proportion of the limiting resources and predicts that community composition should change wh...This publication has 43 references indexed in Scilit:
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