Ecosystem-level consequences of invasions by native species as a way to investigate relationships between evenness and ecosystem function

Biological Invasions

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 609-617

  Valéry, Loïc ^a,b   Fritz, Hervé ^c   Lefeuvre, Jean Claude ^a   Simberloff, Daniel ^d  

^a MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^b CENTRE D ÉTUDES NORDIQUES   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative approach; Ecosystem stability; Ecosystem level impacts; Evenness; Native invasive species; Oligotrophic systems in eutrophication context; Scale; Spatial patterns; Structure function relationships; Systems theory approach

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ECOSYSTEM STRUCTURE; EUTROPHICATION; EXTINCTION; HUMAN ACTIVITY; OLIGOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES EVENNESS;

EID: 59849112400     PISSN: 13873547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10530-008-9275-5     Document Type: Article

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