Population-level compensation by an invasive thistle thwarts biological control from seed predators

Ecological Applications

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 709-721

  Garren, Julie M ^a,b   Strauss, Sharon Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b WESTERN REGIONAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological control; Biological invasions; Centaurea solstitialis; Compensation; Constant final yield; Fitness; Lambda; Pre dispersal seed predation; Seed limitation; Self thinning

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; DICOTYLEDON; FITNESS; INVASIVE SPECIES; POPULATION GROWTH; PREDATION; SEED DISPERSAL; SEEDLING; WEED CONTROL;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; CENTAUREA; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT SEED; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; WEEVIL;

ANIMALS; CENTAUREA; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEEDS; WEEVILS;

CENTAUREA; CENTAUREA SOLSTITIALIS; CIRSIUM; EUSTENOPUS VILLOSUS; SUCCINEA;

EID: 65349110336     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/07-0646.1     Document Type: Article

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