Allelopathy: "Novel Weapons" of exotic invasive plants

Acta Ecologica Sinica

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 3093-3097

  Wu, Jin Rong ^a,b   Peng, Shao Lin ^a,c  

^a SOUTH CHINA INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Allelopathy; Exotic invasive plants; NW hypothesis

Indexed keywords

EID: 28944441026     PISSN: 10000933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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