Beyond biodiversity: Individualistic controls of invasion in a self-assembled community

Ecology Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 121-126

  Meiners, Scott J ^a   Cadenasso, Mary L ^b   Pickett, Steward T A ^b  

^a EASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological invasion; Community dynamics; Diversity; Individualistic responses; Invasibility; Long term data; Old fields; Successional systems

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; INVASIBILITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; SUCCESSION;

EID: 1342311967     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2003.00563.x     Document Type: Article

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