Short-term invasibility patterns in burnt and unburnt experimental Mediterranean grassland communities of varying diversities

Oecologia

Volumn 143, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 428-437

  Dimitrakopoulos, Panayiotis G ^a   Galanidis, Alexandros ^a   Siamantziouras, Akis Stavros D ^a   Troumbis, Andreas Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Fire disturbance; Invasion; Old fields; Stability

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DISTURBANCE; ECOLOGICAL STABILITY; FIRE; GRASSLAND; INVASIBILITY; PLANT COMMUNITY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECOSYSTEM; FIRE; GREECE; PHYSIOLOGY; POACEAE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEM; FIRES; GREECE; POACEAE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 17844407930     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-004-1808-8     Document Type: Article

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