Habitat invasibility and dominance by alien annual plants in the western Mojave Desert

Biological Invasions

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 325-337

  Brooks, Matthew L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alien annual plants; Bromus; Disturbance; Erodium cicutarium; Microhabitat; Mojave Desert plant invasion; Schismus; Soil nutrients

Indexed keywords

BROMUS; BROMUS BERTERIANUS; BROMUS RUBENS; ERODIUM CICUTARIUM; GOPHERUS AGASSIZII; LARREA; LARREA TRIDENTATA; POACEAE; SCHISMUS; TRIDENTATA;

EID: 0013273564     PISSN: 13873547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1010057726056     Document Type: Article

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