Invasion, disturbance, and competition: Modeling the fate of coastal plant populations

Conservation Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 164-173

  Pathikonda, Sharmila ^a   Ackleh, Azmy S ^a   Hasenstein, Karl H ^a   Mopper, Susan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Clonal plants; Exotic species; Extinction; Habitat disturbance; Hurricanes; I. pseudacorus; Iris hexagona; Matrix models; Population dynamics; Species competition

Indexed keywords

SEA WATER;

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; COASTAL ZONE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HURRICANE; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; INVASIVE SPECIES; MARSH; MONOCOTYLEDON; NATIVE SPECIES; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CYCLONE; IRIS; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; WETLAND;

CYCLONES; IRIS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEAWATER; WETLANDS;

IRIS HEXAGONA; IRIS PSEUDACORUS;

EID: 58349104819     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2008.01073.x     Document Type: Article

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