Age-related change in canopy traits shifts conspecific facilitation to interference in a semi-arid shrubland

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• facilitation 100%
• shrubland 98%
• canopy 69%
• shrub 64%
• foliation 62%
• shading 32%
• seedling 29%
• seedling establishment 19%
• plant population 18%
• transition 17%
• climatic zone 17%
• community dynamics 16%
• open space 16%
• age structure 14%
• plant community 13%
• population dynamics 13%
• field experiment 12%
• surface area 11%
• young 9%
• ecosystem 8%
• effect 6%
• rate 4%

Agriculture & Biology

• shrublands 91%
• canopy 68%
• shade 65%
• shrubs 52%
• nurses 29%
• Sarcopoterium spinosum 21%
• open space 17%
• plant establishment 12%
• Israel 12%
• age structure 12%
• surface area 11%
• population dynamics 10%
• species recruitment 10%
• survival rate 9%
• ecosystems 9%
• seedlings 7%
• leaves 5%