Refuge-mediated apparent competition in plant-consumer interactions

Ecology Letters

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 11-20

  Orrock, John L ^a   Holt, Robert D ^b   Baskett, Marissa L ^c  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Allee effects; Behaviour; Biological invasions; Consumers; Herbivores; Short term apparent competition

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; INVASIVE SPECIES; PLANT COMMUNITY; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; REFUGE; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ECOSYSTEM; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATION;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESSES; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR;

EID: 72949122327     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01412.x     Document Type: Article

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