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Species Removals From a First‐Year Old‐Field Plant Community

The three models of succession described by Connell and Slatyer (1977) were tested by removing selected species from a 1st—yr old field in southwestern Ohio. The facilitation model, which is a restatement of the traditional view of succession, was rejected as inapplicable to the community investigated. Evidence favored the tolerance model over the inhibition models; however, it was concluded that more than one model of succession may apply in the same field at the same time, reflecting the spatial heterogeneity which characterizes old—field communities. The observation that community richness and diversity decreased with species removal contrasts with previous studies and is related to time of field abandonment. See full-text article at JSTOR

J. L. Vankat | M. H. Hils | John L. Vankat | Matthew H. Hils

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