Impacts of extreme climatic events on competition during grassland invasions

Global Change Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 1-13

  White, Todd A ^a   Campbell, Bruce D ^a   Kemp, Peter D ^b   Hunt, Chris L ^a  

^a AGRESEARCH GRASSLANDS   (New Zealand)

^b MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

C3; C4; Community invasibility; Competition; Extreme climatic events; Global climate change

Indexed keywords

C3 PLANT; C4 PLANT; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); EXTREME EVENT; GLOBAL CHANGE; GRASSLAND; INVASIBILITY;

EID: 0035727387     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2486.2001.00381.x     Document Type: Article

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