Biodiversity as a barrier to ecological invasion

Nature

Volumn 417, Issue 6889, 2002, Pages 636-638

  Kennedy, Theodore A ^a   Naeem, Shahid ^a   Howe, Katherine M ^a   Knops, Johannes M H ^a   Tilman, David ^a   Reich, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; PLANTS (BOTANY); POPULATION STATISTICS; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT;

INVADERS;

BIODIVERSITY;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; DEFENSE MECHANISM;

ARTICLE; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HABITAT STRUCTURE; NONHUMAN; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ECOSYSTEM; MINNESOTA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SELECTION (GENETICS);

EID: 0037030642     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature00776     Document Type: Article

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