Productivity alters the scale dependence of the diversity-invasibility relationship

Ecology

Volumn 88, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1940-1947

  Davies, Kendi F ^a,c   Harrison, Susan ^a   Safford, Hugh D ^b   Viers, Joshua H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

California grassland; Coexistence mechanisms; Competitive exclusion; Diversity invasibility paradox; Heterogeneity; Invasion; Niche partitioning; Productivity; Serpentine

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; COEXISTENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; GRASSLAND; INVASIBILITY; NATIVE SPECIES; NICHE PARTITIONING; SERPENTINE; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

RAUWOLFIA ALKALOID; SERPENTINE (ALKALOID); UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; PLANTS; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; SECOLOGANIN TRYPTAMINE ALKALOIDS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 35148876180     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/06-1907.1     Document Type: Article

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