Recruitment limitation, seedling performance and persistence of exotic tree monocultures

Biological Invasions

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 979-991

  Siemann, Evan ^a   Rogers, William E ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Celtis laevigata; Chinese Tallow Tree; Herbivory; Natural Enemies Hypothesis; Plant diseases; Plant pathogens; Recruitment limitation; Sapium sebiferum

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DISEASE; INSECT; INVASIVE SPECIES; MONOCULTURE; NATIVE SPECIES; PERSISTENCE; RECRUITMENT; SEEDLING; SUCCESSION; TREE;

NORTH AMERICA; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

CELTIS; FUNGI; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; SAPIUM; TRIADICA SEBIFERA;

EID: 33747090365     PISSN: 13873547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10530-005-0825-9     Document Type: Article

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