Management strategies for plant invasions: Manipulating productivity, disturbance, and competition

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 167-178

  Huston, Michael A ^a  

^a TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological invasions; Competition; Disturbance; Diversity; Dominance; Management; Productivity

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DISTURBANCE; DOMINANCE; INVASIBILITY; PLANT COMMUNITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

EID: 2342460983     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1366-9516.2004.00083.x     Document Type: Review

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