Context matters: Matrix vegetation influences native and exotic species composition on habitat islands

Ecology

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 380-391

  Wiser, Susan K ^a   Buxton, Rowan P ^a  

^a LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Biotic homogenization; Ecological island; Exotic plants; Landscape context; New Zealand; Rare plants; RDA (redundancy analysis); Rock outcrops; Variation partitioning; Vegetation environment relationships; Volcanic outcrops

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; HETEROGENEITY; INVASIVE SPECIES; ISLAND; NATIVE SPECIES; OUTCROP; SOIL DEPTH; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; VOLCANIC SOIL;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; NEW ZEALAND; PLANT; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOIL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STANDARD; VOLCANO;

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; NEW ZEALAND; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; PLANTS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOIL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

AUSTRALASIA; BANKS PENINSULA; CANTERBURY [SOUTH ISLAND]; NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH ISLAND;

EID: 42249092699     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/07-0196.1     Document Type: Article

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