Ecological filtering of exotic plants in an Australian sub-alpine environment

Journal of Vegetation Science

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 227-236

  Godfree, Robert ^a   Lepschi, Brendan ^b   Mallinson, David ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Community invisibility; Community structure; Diversity relationship; Functional group; Grassland; Roadside; Trait convergence; Woodland

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; GRASSLAND; INVASIBILITY; PLANT COMMUNITY; ROADSIDE ENVIRONMENT; SUBALPINE ENVIRONMENT; WOODLAND;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

ASTERACEAE; EUCALYPTUS; POA;

EID: 2342460368     PISSN: 11009233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1654-1103.2004.tb02257.x     Document Type: Article

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