Predicting dispersal and recruitment of Miconia calvescens (Melastomataceae) in Australian tropical rainforests

Biological Invasions

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 925-936

  Murphy, Helen T ^a,b   Hardesty, B D ^a   Fletcher, C S ^a   Metcalfe, D J ^a   Westcott, D A ^a   Brooks, S J ^b,c  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b The CRC for Australian Weed Management   (Australia)

^c Tropical Weeds Research Centre   (Australia)

Author keywords

Dispersal; Individual based model; Invasion; Melastome; Miconia calvescens; Rainforest; Recruitment; Spread; Tropical

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; DICOTYLEDON; DISPERSAL; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FECUNDITY; HERB; INVASIVE SPECIES; MORTALITY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PREDICTION; RAINFOREST; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; TROPICAL FOREST;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; QUEENSLAND;

MELASTOMATACEAE; MICONIA; MICONIA CALVESCENS;

EID: 46649097604     PISSN: 13873547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10530-008-9246-x     Document Type: Article

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