Ecological resistance to biological invasion overwhelmed by propagule pressure

Ecology

Volumn 86, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 3212-3218

  Von Holle, Betsy ^a,b   Simberloff, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Field experiment; Introduction effort; Invasibility; Plant invaders; Richness

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; INVASIBILITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

EID: 30644470430     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: 00129658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/05-0427     Document Type: Article

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