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Belowground Competition

Belowground Competition is a form of plant competition in crop–weed systems that occurs when the root systems of neighboring plants exploit overlapping soil volumes and thereby compete for limited below-surface resources such as water and mineral nutrients, as distinct from aboveground competition for light.

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Competitive Exclusion in Herbaceous Vegetation

J. Philip Grime · Nature · 1973 · 2.5K citations

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Asymmetric competition in plant populations

Jacob Weiner · Trends in Ecology & Evolution · 1990 · 1.3K citations

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Plant Competition Underground

Brenda B. Casper, Robert B. Jackson · Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics · 1997 · 1.1K citations

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The Resource-Ratio Hypothesis of Plant Succession

David Tilman · The American Naturalist · 1985 · 1K citations

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Plant functional traits have globally consistent effects on competition

Georges Künstler, Daniel S. Falster, David A. Coomes et al. · Nature · 2015 · 958 citations · Full text

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  1. HD
    Hans de Kroon

    Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands

    11 publications · 982 citations

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  2. WB
    Wolfram Beyschlag

    Bielefeld University, Germany

    9 publications · 479 citations

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  3. JF
    James F. Cahill

    University of Alberta, Canada

    8 publications · 860 citations

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  4. DT
    David Tilman

    University of Minnesota, United States

    8 publications · 3K citations

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  5. SD
    Scott D. Wilson

    University of Regina, Canada

    8 publications · 1.1K citations

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  1. Wageningen University & Research

    Wageningen, The Netherlands

    18 h-index

    52 publications

    6.5K citations

  2. Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

    Uppsala, Sweden

    13 h-index

    33 publications

    2.8K citations

  3. Chinese Academy of Sciences

    Beijing, China

    13 h-index

    52 publications

    1.7K citations

  4. Utrecht University

    Utrecht, The Netherlands

    12 h-index

    24 publications

    2.6K citations

  5. University of Minnesota

    Minneapolis, United States

    11 h-index

    18 publications

    1.8K citations

  6. Utah State University

    Logan, United States

    11 h-index

    28 publications

    1.9K citations

  7. Agricultural Research Service

    Washington, United States

    10 h-index

    18 publications

    1K citations

  8. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    10 h-index

    23 publications

    1.2K citations

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  1. Ecology

    47 publications · 5.6K citations

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  2. Journal of Ecology

    38 publications · 5.8K citations

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  3. Oecologia

    33 publications · 2.8K citations

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  4. Plant Ecology

    29 publications · 1.1K citations

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  5. Journal of Vegetation Science

    JVS · 24 publications · 1.1K citations

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