Reducing redundancy in invasion ecology by integrating hypotheses into a single theoretical framework

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 22-40

  Catford, Jane A ^a   Jansson, Roland ^b   Nilsson, Christer ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Biological invasions; Community ecology; Darwin; Elton; Invaders; Synthesis

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN ACTIVITY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; PLANT; PROPAGULE; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 57349187789     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2008.00521.x     Document Type: Review

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