Exotic shrub invasion in an undisturbed wetland has little community-level effect over a 15-year period

Biological Invasions

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1803-1820

  Mills, Jason E ^a   Reinartz, James A ^a   Meyer, Gretchen A ^a   Young, Erica B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Forested wetland; Glossy buckthorn; Invasive shrub; Long term study; Plant community; Rhamnus frangula L.

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; INVASIVE SPECIES; NATIVE SPECIES; PLANT COMMUNITY; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SAMPLING; SHRUB; SPECIES RICHNESS; VEGETATION INDEX; WETLAND;

FRANGULA; FRANGULA ALNUS; RHAMNACEAE;

EID: 70349507971     PISSN: 13873547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10530-008-9359-2     Document Type: Article

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