Prunus serotina unleashed: Invader dominance after 70 years of forest development

Biological Invasions

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1113-1124

  Vanhellemont, Margot ^a   Wauters, Lotte ^a   Baeten, Lander ^a   Bijlsma, Rienk Jan ^b   de Frenne, Pieter ^a   Hermy, Martin ^c   Verheyen, Kris ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Biological invasions; Demography; Dispersal kernel; Pine forest; Ripley's L; Sandy soils

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DECIDUOUS FOREST; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FOREST INVENTORY; FOREST MANAGEMENT; INVASIVE SPECIES; PROPAGULE; REGENERATION; SANDY SOIL; SEED PRODUCTION; TREE RING;

BELGIUM; NETHERLANDS;

PRUNUS; PRUNUS SEROTINA;

EID: 77952288360     PISSN: 13873547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10530-009-9529-x     Document Type: Article

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