Relative importance of suppression-based and tolerance-based competition in an invaded oak savanna

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 422-434

  MacDougall, Andrew S ^a   Turkington, Roy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Competitive effect; Competitive response; Low resource tolerance ability; Plant invasion; Resource suppression ability

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); RESOURCE USE; SAVANNA; SUCCESSION; TOLERANCE;

BROMUS; BROMUS CARINATUS; DACTYLIS; DACTYLIS GLOMERATA; ELYMUS; ELYMUS GLAUCUS; GLAUCUS; POA; POA PRATENSIS; POACEAE; QUERCUS;

EID: 1842770486     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0022-0477.2004.00886.x     Document Type: Article

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