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001			https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/56326
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020			_a978-2-88945-205-7
020			_a9782889452057
024	7		_a10.3389/978-2-88945-205-7 _cdoi
041	0		_aEnglish
042			_adc
100	1		_aJudy Simon _4auth
700	1		_aSusanne Schmidt _4auth
245	1	0	_aPlant Competition in a Changing World
260			_bFrontiers Media SA _c2017
300			_a1 electronic resource (154 p.)
506	0		_aOpen Access _2star _fUnrestricted online access
520			_aCompetitiveness describes a key ability important for plants to grow and survive abiotic and biotic stresses. Under optimal, but particularly under non-optimal conditions, plants compete for resources including nutrients, light, water, space, pollinators and other. Competition occurs above- and belowground. In resource-poor habitats, competition is generally considered to be more pronounced than in resource-rich habitats. Although competition occurs between different players within an ecosystem such as between plants and soil microorganisms, our topic focusses on plant-plant interactions and includes inter-specific competition between different species of similar and different life forms and intra-specific competition. Strategies for securing resources via spatial or temporal separation and different resource needs generally reduce competition. Increasingly important is the effect of invasive plants and subsequent decline in biodiversity and ecosystem function. Current knowledge and future climate predictions suggest that in some situations competition will be intensified with occurrence of increased abiotic (e.g. water and nutrient limitations) and biotic stresses (e.g. mass outbreak of insects), but competition might also decrease in situations where plant productivity and survival declines (e.g. habitats with degraded soils). Changing interactions, climate change and biological invasions place new challenges on ecosystems. Understanding processes and mechanisms that underlie the interactions between plants and environmental factors will aid predictions and intervention. There is much need to develop strategies to secure ecosystem services via primary productivity and to prevent the continued loss of biodiversity. This Research Topic provides an up-to-date account of knowledge on plant-plant interactions with a focus on identifying the mechanisms underpinning competitive ability. The Research Topic aims to showcase knowledge that links ecological relevance with physiological processes to better understanding plant and ecosystem function.
540			_aCreative Commons _fhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ _2cc _4https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
546			_aEnglish
653			_aconservation
653			_aGlobal Warming
653			_aClimate Change
653			_ainvasion
653			_aplant-plant interactions
653			_acompetition
653			_afacilitation
653			_aAllelochemicals
856	4	0	_awww.oapen.org _uhttp://journal.frontiersin.org/researchtopic/1722/plant-competition-in-a-changing-world _70 _zDOAB: download the publication
856	4	0	_awww.oapen.org _uhttps://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/56326 _70 _zDOAB: description of the publication
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