Overstorey tree species regulate colonization by native and exotic plants: A source of positive relationships between understorey diversity and invasibility

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 666-675

  Knight, Kathleen S ^a,d   Oleksyn, Jacek ^a,b   Jagodzinski, Andrzej M ^b   Reich, Peter B ^a   Kasprowicz, Marek ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF DENDROLOGY   (Poland)

^c ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^d USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological invasions; Competition; Diversity; Invasibility; Light; Prunus serotina; Species richness

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; COLONIZATION; DECIDUOUS FOREST; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; INVASIVE SPECIES; LIGHT AVAILABILITY; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NATIVE SPECIES; OVERSTORY; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; POLAND;

PRUNUS; PRUNUS SEROTINA;

EID: 44949257188     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2008.00468.x     Document Type: Article

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