Alien plant invasion in mixed-grass prairie: Effects of vegetation type and anthropogenic disturbance

Ecological Applications

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 128-141

  Larson, Diane L ^a   Anderson, Patrick J ^b   Newton, Wesley ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Akaike's Information Criterion; Alien plants; Anthropogenic disturbance; Great Plains; Mixed grass prairie; Native vegetation type; North Dakota (USA); Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; DISTURBANCE; INVASIBILITY; PLANT COMMUNITY; PRAIRIE;

NORTH DAKOTA; THEODORE ROOSEVELT NATIONAL PARK; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0035147622     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(2001)011[0128:APIIMG]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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