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| Type: | Thesis |
| Title: | The intensity of competitive interactions as a function of fertility, in Mediterranean-type old fields in South Australia / Brenton Ladd. |
| Author: | Ladd, Brenton Mark |
| Issue Date: | 2003 |
| School/Discipline: | School of Environmental Engineering |
| Abstract: | Studies the establishment of tree seedlings in Mediterranean-type oldfields in South Australia to test for a correlation between habitat fertility and the intensity of competition. Also investigates whether resource competition and invertebrate herbivory are confounded with each other. Testing for correlation was carried out using a quantitative literature review in combination with field and glasshouse experiments. Results suggest that direct effects,and indirect effects may be heavily confounded, and that a positive correlation between fertility and the intensity of competition is most probable when a phenomenological definition of competition is used. |
| Dissertation Note: | Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, School of Environmental Engineering, 2003 |
| Subject: | Plant competition. |
| Description: | "April 22, 2003" Bibliography: leaves 131-147. 147 leaves : ill., 30 cm. |
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