Alien seedling recruitment as a response to altitude and soil disturbance in the mountain grasslands of central Argentina

Plant Ecology

Volumn 193, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 279-291

  Paiaro, Valeria ^a   Mangeaud, Arnaldo ^a   Pucheta, Eduardo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CÓRDOBA   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE SAN JUAN   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Alien species; Altitudinal gradient; Cirsium vulgare; Melilotus alba; Micro site disturbance; Plant invasion

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; DISTURBANCE; GRASSLAND; INTRODUCED SPECIES; RECRUITMENT; SEEDLING EMERGENCE; SOIL;

ARGENTINA; SOUTH AMERICA;

CIRSIUM; CIRSIUM VULGARE; MELILOTUS; MELILOTUS ALBA;

EID: 35448934949     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-007-9265-1     Document Type: Article

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