Does disturbance, competition or resource limitation underlie Hieracium lepidulum invasion in New Zealand? Mechanisms of establishment and persistence, and functional differentiation among invasive and native species

Austral Ecology

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 282-293

  Radford, Ian J ^a   Dickinson, Katharine J M ^b   Lord, Janice M ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND CONSERVATION   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Exotic; Invasion; Native plants; Plant function; Sub alpine vegetation

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); DISTURBANCE; DOMINANCE; FUNCTIONAL RESPONSE; HERB; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INVASIVE SPECIES; NATIVE SPECIES; NUTRIENT LIMITATION; VEGETATION TYPE;

NEW ZEALAND;

HIERACIUM LEPIDULUM;

EID: 77952948054     PISSN: 14429985     EISSN: 14429993     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9993.2009.02034.x     Document Type: Article

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