title: Diffuse competition in plant communities.
abstract: Despite the potential importance of diffuse competition in plant communities - where competitive interactions between individuals might be expected to involve many neighbours - very little attention has been paid to this phenomenon by plant ecologists. Attempts to bridge this gap will require a serious approach to problems of neighbourhood interactions in relation to species identity, individual size, age, density and frequency in addition to the spatial and temporal vagaries of the field environment.
authors.affiliation: Jonathan Mitchley is at the Department of Biological Sciences, University of Lancaster, Lancaster LA1 4YQ, UK.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Mitchley