Dominance of an invasive earthworm in native and non-native grassland ecosystems

Biological Invasions

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1393-1401

  Sánchez De León, Yaniria ^a,b   Johnson Maynard, Jodi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Conservation Reserve Program; Grasslands; Invasive earthworms; Palouse prairie

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; DOMINANCE; EARTHWORM; GRASSLAND; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; INVASIVE SPECIES; LAND USE CHANGE; NATIVE SPECIES; PRAIRIE; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE;

NORTH AMERICA; PALOUSE; UNITED STATES;

APORRECTODEA TRAPEZOIDES; POACEAE;

EID: 67349127943     PISSN: 13873547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10530-008-9347-6     Document Type: Article

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