Population dynamics and potential for biological control of an exotic invasive shrub in Hawaiian rainforests

Biological Invasions

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1145-1158

  DeWalt, Saara J ^a  

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological control; Clidemia hirta; Demography; Elasticity analysis; Invasive species; Matrix models; Near term dynamics

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; INVASIVE SPECIES; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH; RAINFOREST; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; SHRUB;

HAWAII [(ISL) HAWAIIAN ISLANDS]; HAWAII [UNITED STATES]; HAWAIIAN ISLANDS; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; UNITED STATES;

CLIDEMIA HIRTA; MELASTOMATACEAE;

EID: 33747159666     PISSN: 13873547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10530-005-5277-8     Document Type: Article

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