The effects on terrestrial arthropod communities of invasion of a coastal heath ecosystem by the exotic weed bitou bush (Chrysanthemoides monilifera ssp. rotundata L.)

Biological Invasions

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 477-498

  Wilkie, Lance ^a   Cassis, Gerasimos ^a   Gray, Michael ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

Author keywords

diversity; Arthropod biodiversity; Assemblage structure; Bitou bush; Chrysanthemoides monilifera; Sand mining; Seasonality; Species accumulation curves; Species composition; Weed invasion

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; COASTAL ZONE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DICOTYLEDON; HERBICIDE; LITTORAL ENVIRONMENT; NATURE RESERVE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECIES RICHNESS; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM; WEED CONTROL;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; BUDGEWOI; FORSTER; NEW SOUTH WALES;

ARANEAE; ARTHROPODA; CHRYSANTHEMOIDES MONILIFERA; COLEOPTERA; FORMICIDAE; HETEROPTERA; HYMENOPTERA;

EID: 34248384770     PISSN: 13873547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10530-006-9055-z     Document Type: Article

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