Can inconspicuous legumes facilitate alien grass invasions? Partridge peas and fountain grass in Hawai'i

Ecography

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 33-41

  Carino, Debbie A ^a   Daehler, Curtis C ^a  

^a Dept of Botany ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; FACILITATION; GRASS; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; LEGUME; NITROGEN FIXATION;

UNITED STATES;

CHAMAECRISTA; CHAMAECRISTA NICTITANS; HETEROPOGON CONTORTUS; PENNISETUM; PENNISETUM SETACEUM; PISUM SATIVUM; POACEAE;

EID: 0036488406     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0587.2002.250105.x     Document Type: Article

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