Cage matching: Head to head competition experiments of an invasive plant species from different regions as a means to test for differentiation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Lortie, Christopher J ^a   Munshaw, Michael ^a   Zikovitz, Andrea ^b   Hierro, Jose ^c  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PAMPA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; CENTAUREA; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GERMINATION; GREENHOUSE; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; MONOCULTURE; NONHUMAN; PLANT DENSITY; PLANT ECOLOGY; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT SEED; SEEDLING; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES INVASION; UNITED STATES; ADAPTATION; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING;

CENTAUREA; CENTAUREA SOLSTITIALIS;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; CENTAUREA; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY;

EID: 62849094490     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004823     Document Type: Article

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