Asymmetric competition in plant populations

TY - JOUR

T1 - Asymmetric competition in plant populations

AU - Weiner, Jacob

PY - 1990/1/1

Y1 - 1990/1/1

N2 - Recently there has been much interest in the hypothesis that competition between individual plants is asymmetric or onesided: larger individuals obtain a disproportionate share of the resources (for their relative size) and suppress the growth of smaller individuals. This has important implications for population structure, for the analysis of competition between plants at the individual, population and community levels, and for our understanding of competition as a selective force in the evolution of plant populations.

AB - Recently there has been much interest in the hypothesis that competition between individual plants is asymmetric or onesided: larger individuals obtain a disproportionate share of the resources (for their relative size) and suppress the growth of smaller individuals. This has important implications for population structure, for the analysis of competition between plants at the individual, population and community levels, and for our understanding of competition as a selective force in the evolution of plant populations.

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0025624294&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1016/0169-5347(90)90095-U

DO - 10.1016/0169-5347(90)90095-U

M3 - Review

AN - SCOPUS:0025624294

SN - 0169-5347

VL - 5

SP - 360

EP - 364

JO - Trends in Ecology & Evolution

JF - Trends in Ecology & Evolution

IS - 11

ER -