Interactions between non-native plant species and the floristic composition of common habitats

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 94, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1052-1060

  Maskell, L C ^a   Firbank, L G ^a   Thompson, K ^b   Bullock, J M ^a   Smart, S M ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Countryside Survey; Diversity; Exotics; Landscape scale; Neophytes; Plant traits; Temporal studies

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; FLORISTICS; INTRASPECIFIC INTERACTION; INTRODUCED SPECIES; NATIVE SPECIES; PLANT COMMUNITY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

IMPATIENS; IMPATIENS GLANDULIFERA; POLYGONUM CUSPIDATUM; RHODODENDRON; RHODODENDRON PONTICUM;

EID: 33749427394     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: 13652745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2006.01172.x     Document Type: Article

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