Light reduction predicts widespread patterns of dominance between asters and goldenrods

Abstract excerpt

Here we investigate the long-cited pattern that throughout the eastern United States, Solidago species (goldenrods), and in particular S. canadensis displace Aster species and dominate old-field communities. Theory predicts that such a ubiquitous pattern of repeated dominance should be linked to competitive ability for a limiting resource. However, no one has investigated this possibility in old-fields, representi...

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• Arthropods
• Biodiversity
• Ecosystem
• Feeding Behavior
• Population Density
• Population Dynamics
• Population Growth
• Time Factors

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Literature Corpus work

5bcbab38-d7c4-581d-818f-131f47a7f9cb

DOI

10.1007/s11258-008-9412-3