Invasional meltdown 6 years later: Important phenomenon, unfortunate metaphor, or both?

Ecology Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 912-919

  Simberloff, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Facilitation; Invasion; Meltdown; Metaphor; Mycorrhizae; Pollination

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; INTRODUCED SPECIES;

ANIMAL; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; LITERATURE; NOMENCLATURE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOLOGY; METAPHOR; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TERMINOLOGY;

EID: 33746752212     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2006.00939.x     Document Type: Review

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