Above-ground space sequestration determines competitive success in juvenile beech and spruce trees

• Published in: The New phytologist Vol. 167; no. 1; pp. 181 - 196
• Main Authors: Kozovits, A.R, Matyssek, R, Winkler, J.B, Gottlein, A, Blaschke, H, Grams, T.E.E
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Science 01.07.2005; Blackwell Science Ltd; Blackwell
• Subjects: Aboveground biomass; air pollution; allometry; Animal and plant ecology; Animal, plant and microbial ecology; Biological and medical sciences; Biomass; Carbon; Carbon - metabolism; Carbon Dioxide; competition; Competitiveness; Cost efficiency; cost–benefit relations; Demecology; Demography; ecological succession; elevated carbon dioxide; Fagus; Fagus - growth & development; Fagus - physiology; Fagus sylvatica; Fagus sylvatica (beech); forest ecosystems; forest trees; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; growth & development; interspecific competition; intraspecific competition; Leaves; metabolism; Ozone; ozone (O3); physiology; Phytotrons; Picea; Picea - growth & development; Picea - physiology; Picea abies; Picea abies (spruce); plant growth; Plant Leaves; Plant Leaves - physiology; Plant Roots; Plant Roots - physiology; Plant Shoots; Plant Shoots - physiology; Plants; Plants and fungi; pollutants; resource investment; Seasons; Picea abies (spruce); Growth; Resource allocation; Carbon dioxide; competition; Biomass; Allometry; Medium enrichment; elevated carbon dioxide; Dicotyledones; ozone (O3); Angiospermae; Softwood forest tree; Gymnospermae; Interspecific competition; Hardwood forest tree; Ozone; Fagaceae; Stress; cost-benefit relations; Fagus sylvatica (beech); Intraspecific competition; Coniferales; Spermatophyta; resource investment; Picea abies; Interspecific relation; Fagus sylvatica

$\bullet$ A 2-yr phytotron study was conducted to investigate the intra- and inter-specific competitive behaviour of juvenile beech (Fagus sylvatica) and spruce (Picea abies). Competitiveness was analysed by quantifying the resource budgets that occur along structures and within occupied space of re...