Community invasibility, recruitment limitation, and grassland biodiversity

Ecology

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 81-92

  Tilman, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Dispersal; Empty sites; Metapopulation dynamics; Prairie grassland; Recruitment limitation; Savanna; Seed addition; Species richness

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; GRASSLAND; INVASIBILITY; RECRUITMENT; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

EID: 0030825404     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(1997)078[0081:CIRLAG]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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