No evidence for trade-offs: Centaure a plants from America are better competitors and defenders

Ecological Monographs

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 369-386

  Ridenour, Wendy M ^a   Vivanco, Jorge M ^b   Feng, Yulong ^c   Horiuchi, Jun Ichiro ^b   Callaway, Ragan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^c CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Allelopathy; Centaurea maculosa; Competition; Defense; EICA; Evolution of increased competitive ability; Herbivory; Invasion; Novel weapons

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPETITIVE ABILITY; DEFENSE MECHANISM; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; GENETIC VARIATION; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; GROWTH RESPONSE; HERB; HERBIVORE; HERBIVORY; INVASIVE SPECIES; MATERNAL EFFECT; REPRODUCTION; SELECTION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTH AMERICA;

CENTAUREA; CENTAUREA MACULOSA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 60549089600     PISSN: 00129615     EISSN: 15577015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/06-1926.1     Document Type: Article

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