Pine invasions in the southern hemisphere: Modelling interactions between organism, environment and disturbance

Plant Ecology

Volumn 135, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 79-93

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Biological invasions; Disturbance; Environment type; Interactions; Invasion theory; Life history attributes; Pinus; Spatially explicit individual based model

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; INDIVIDUAL-BASED MODEL; PINE FOREST;

SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE;

PINUS;

EID: 0031956553     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009760512895     Document Type: Article

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