Exotic vertebrate and invertebrate herbivores differ in their impacts on native and exotic plants: A meta-analysis

Biological Invasions

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 407-419

  Oduor, Ayub M O ^a   Gómez, José M ^a   Strauss, Sharon Y ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biotic resistance; Exotic herbivores; Exotic plants; Invasional meltdown; Meta analysis; Native plants

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; FACILITATION; HERBIVORE; INVASIBILITY; INVASIVE SPECIES; INVERTEBRATE; META-ANALYSIS; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; POPULATION SIZE; VERTEBRATE;

INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 77952743558     PISSN: 13873547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10530-009-9622-1     Document Type: Article

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