Weed-biocontrol insects reduce native-plant recruitment through second-order apparent competition

Ecological Applications

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1489-1500

  Pearson, Dean E ^a,b   Callaway, Ragan M ^b  

^a ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

Apparent competition; Biological control; Centaurea maculosa; Exotic plants; Food web interactions; Herbicide; Indirect effects; Nontarget effects; Peromyscus maniculatus; Seed predation; Urophora spp.; Weed management

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; APPARENT COMPETITION; BIOCONTROL AGENT; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; FOOD CHAIN; FOOD WEB; GRASS; HERB; HERBICIDE; INSECT; NATIVE SPECIES; NONTARGET ORGANISM; PLANT COMMUNITY; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); RODENT; SEED PREDATION; SEEDLING EMERGENCE; WEED CONTROL;

INTERMOUNTAIN WEST; NORTH AMERICA;

BALSAMORHIZA SAGITTATA; CENTAUREA; CENTAUREA MACULOSA; HEXAPODA; MAMMALIA; MUS; PEROMYSCUS; PEROMYSCUS MANICULATUS; PSEUDOROEGNERIA SPICATA; UROPHORA;

HERBICIDE; PICLORAM;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASTERACEAE; CENTAUREA; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; FOOD PREFERENCE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PEROMYSCUS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT SEED; POACEAE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEEDLING; TEPHRITIDAE;

ANIMALS; ASTERACEAE; CENTAUREA; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; FOOD PREFERENCES; HERBICIDES; PEROMYSCUS; PICLORAM; POACEAE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEEDLING; SEEDS; TEPHRITIDAE;

EID: 58149330699     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/07-1789.1     Document Type: Article

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