Dispersal, competition, and shifting patterns of diversity in a degraded oak savanna

Ecology

Volumn 87, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1831-1843

  MacDougall, Andrew S ^a,b   Turkington, Roy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

British Columbia; Competition; Dispersal limitation; Habitat loss; Oak savanna; Plant invasion; Species coexistence

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; BIOMASS; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); DISPERSAL; EVERGREEN TREE; HABITAT LOSS; SAVANNA; SOIL DEPTH; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

EID: 33746513105     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: 00129658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2006)87[1831:DCASPO]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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