Modeling invasive plant spread: The role of plant-environment interactions and model structure

Ecology

Volumn 77, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 2043-2054

  Higgins, Steven I ^a   Richardson, David M ^a   Cowling, Richard M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Alien plants; Biological invasions; Disturbance; Factorial simulation experiment; Fynbos; Individual based models; Pinus; Plant life history; Reaction diffusion models; Scaling artifacts; Sensitivity analysis; Spatially explicit simulation models

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; DISPERSAL; FECUNDITY; FIRE; FYNBOS; INTRODUCED PLANT; SEXUAL MATURITY;

SOUTH AFRICA;

PINACEAE; PINUS;

EID: 0030428003     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2265699     Document Type: Article

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