Who will win where and why? An ecophysiological dissection of the competition between a tropical pasture grass and the invasive weed Bracken over an elevation range of 1000 m in the tropical Andes

• Johannes Knuesting,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Plant Physiology, Faculty of Biology and Chemistry, Osnabrueck University, Osnabrueck, Germany

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• Marie Clara Brinkmann,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Plant Physiology, Faculty of Biology and Chemistry, Osnabrueck University, Osnabrueck, Germany

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• Brenner Silva,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Laboratory for Climatology and Remote Sensing, Faculty of Geography, Philipps-University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany

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• Michael Schorsch,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Plant Physiology, Faculty of Biology and Chemistry, Osnabrueck University, Osnabrueck, Germany

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• Jörg Bendix,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratory for Climatology and Remote Sensing, Faculty of Geography, Philipps-University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany

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• Erwin Beck,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Plant Physiology, Faculty of Biology, Chemistry, and Geosciences, BAYCEER, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany

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• Renate Scheibe

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: scheibe@biologie.uni-osnabrueck.de

  Affiliation Department of Plant Physiology, Faculty of Biology and Chemistry, Osnabrueck University, Osnabrueck, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6140-6181

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