Invasiveness in plant communities with feedbacks

Ecology Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 253-263

  Eppstein, Margaret J ^a   Molofsky, Jane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

Cellular automata; Enemy release hypotheses; Feedbacks; Frequency dependence; Lotka Volterra competition; Predicting invasiveness; Propagule pressure; Spatially explicit models

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; CELLULAR AUTOMATON; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); CONSERVATION PLANNING; FEEDBACK MECHANISM; INTRODUCED SPECIES; INVASIVE SPECIES; LOTKA-VOLTERRA MODEL; NATURE CONSERVATION; PLANT COMMUNITY; PROPAGULE; REMEDIATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; PLANT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANTS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 33947238800     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2007.01017.x     Document Type: Review

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