Herbivory is related to taxonomic isolation, but not to invasiveness of tropical alien plants

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 141-147

  Dawson, Wayne ^a,b   Burslem, David F R P ^a   Hulme, Philip E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c LINCOLN UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Biological invasions; Exotic; Plant animal interactions; Propagule pressure; Weeds

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; DAMAGE; HERBIVORY; HISTORICAL RECORD; INVASIVE SPECIES; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; PROPAGULE; SPECIES INVENTORY; TAXONOMY; WEED;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

ANIMALIA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 57349133128     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2008.00527.x     Document Type: Article

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