Invasibility and compositional stability in a grassland community: Relationships to diversity and extrinsic factors

Oikos

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 300-307

  Foster, Bryan L ^a   Smith, Val H ^a   Dickson, Timothy L ^a   Hildebrand, Terri ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DISTURBANCE; ECOLOGICAL STABILITY; INVASIBILITY; LIGHT AVAILABILITY; PLANT COMMUNITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036857445     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0706.2002.990210.x     Document Type: Article

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