oak ridge free air co 2 enrichment (face) experiment in sweet gum forest

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Oak Ridge Free Air CO2 Enrichment (FACE) experiment in sweet gum forest

FACE 1998Control 1998

Nevada Desert FACE experimentin Mojave Desert near Las Vegas

Home range

Introducedarea

Disturbedarea

Naturalarea

Geographic

ReproduceEnvironment

Disperse

Richardson et al. (2000)

Lantana camara

10 hypotheses:

a) Competition hypothesis

b) Escape from biotic constraints hypothesis

c) BCW (allelopathy) hypothesis

d) Microevolutionary change hypothesis

e) Vacant niche hypothesis

f) Biodiversity hypothesis

g) Variable resource availability hypothesis

h) Disturbance and land use hypothesis

i) Environmental change hypothesis

j) Anthropogenic hypothesis

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