Diversity and invasibility of southern Appalachian plant communities

Ecology

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 32-39

  Brown, Rebecca L ^a,b   Peet, Robert K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Disturbance; Diversity; Exotic species; Immigration extinction gradient; Invasibility; Propagule pressure; Riparian plant communities; Spatial scale; Species richness

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); IMMIGRATION; INVASIBILITY; PLANT COMMUNITY; RIPARIAN VEGETATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

APPALACHIAN MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES;

RIPARIA; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 0037867192     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2003)084[0032:DAIOSA]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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