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Experiments link competition and climate change responses

JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE (2016)

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JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Volume 27, Issue 2, Pages 217-218

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DOI: 10.1111/jvs.12388

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Species interactions can have a larger impact on plant performance than direct effects of climate change itself, as shown by Rysavy etal. in this issue of the Journal of Vegetation Science. Their study illustrates different ways in which plant-plant interactions can change following climate change, stressing the need for experiments to disentangle direct and indirect impacts of climate change.

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