Using assembly rules to measure the resilience of riparian plant communities to beaver invasion in subantarctic forests

Biological Invasions

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 325-335

  Wallem, Petra K ^a   Anderson, Christopher B ^b,c   Martínez Pastur, Guillermo ^d   Lencinas, María Vanessa ^d  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^b INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA Y BIODIVERSIDAD IEB   (Chile)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE MAGALLANES   (Chile)

^d CENTRO AUSTRAL DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTÍFICAS CADIC CONICET   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Assembly rules; Ecosystem engineer; Environmental impact; Invasive herbivore; Temperate forests; Tierra del Fuego

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY RULE; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DECIDUOUS FOREST; ECOSYSTEM ENGINEERING; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; HERBIVORE; INVASIVE SPECIES; PLANT COMMUNITY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RIPARIAN VEGETATION; SUBANTARCTIC REGION; TEMPERATE FOREST; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

ARGENTINA; CHILE;

EID: 77952744369     PISSN: 13873547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10530-009-9625-y     Document Type: Article

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