Invasibility in a spatiotemporally fluctuating environment is determined by the periodicity of fluctuations and resident turnover rates

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 274, Issue 1616, 2007, Pages 1429-1435

  Schoolmaster Jr , Donald R ^a   Snyder, Robin E ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental variation; Germination; Invasibility; Spatiotemporal; Turnover

Indexed keywords

GERMINATION; INVASIBILITY; PERENNIAL PLANT; PERIODICITY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TURNOVER;

ARTICLE; COMPETITION; GERMINATION; GROWTH RATE; MODEL; NONHUMAN; PERENNIAL PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES INVASION;

EID: 34249987269     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2007.0118     Document Type: Article

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