Learning from failures: Testing broad taxonomic hypotheses about plant naturalization

Ecology Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1174-1183

  Diez, Jeffrey M ^a   Williams, Peter A ^b   Randall, Rod P ^c   Sullivan, Jon J ^a   Hulme, Philip E ^a   Duncan, Richard P ^a  

^a LINCOLN UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^c Department of Agriculture and Food ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Darwin's naturalization hypothesis; Island continent invasion patterns; Taxonomic patterns of naturalization

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INTRODUCED SPECIES; INVASIBILITY; PLANT COMMUNITY; TAXONOMY;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BIODIVERSITY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; NEW ZEALAND; PLANT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

AUSTRALIA; BIODIVERSITY; NEW ZEALAND; PLANTS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 70350059421     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01376.x     Document Type: Article

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