Herbivory alters competitive interactions between two invasive aquatic plants

Biological Control

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 173-185

  Center, Ted D ^a   Van, Thai K ^a   Dray Jr , F Allen ^a   Franks, Steven J ^a   Rebelo, M Teresa ^b   Pratt, Paul D ^a   Rayamajhi, Min B ^a  

^a INVASIVE PLANT RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Faculdade de Medicine de Lisboa   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Addition series competition experiments; Aquatic plants; Clonal growth; Competition; Flowering; Herbivory; Inverse yield model; Plant community structure; Plant nutrition; Predicting efficacy; Species coexistence; Waterhyacinth; Waterlettuce; Weevils

Indexed keywords

CURCULIONIDAE; EICHHORNIA CRASSIPES; NEOCHETINA BRUCHI; NEOCHETINA EICHHORNIAE; PISTIA STRATIOTES; STRATIOTES;

EID: 16844365480     PISSN: 10499644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocontrol.2005.02.005     Document Type: Article

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