Similarities in the impact of three large invasive plant species on soil seed bank communities

Biological Invasions

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1671-1683

  Gioria, Margherita ^a   Osborne, Bruce ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Diversity; Fallopia japonica; Gunnera tinctoria; Heracleum mantegazzianum; Invasive species; Soil seed bank

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HERB; INVASIVE SPECIES; LITTER; PHYTOMASS; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SEED BANK; SELECTION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; WEED;

GUNNERA TINCTORIA; HERACLEUM; HERACLEUM MANTEGAZZIANUM; JUNCUS; POLYGONUM CUSPIDATUM;

EID: 77952292515     PISSN: 13873547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10530-009-9580-7     Document Type: Article

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