Experimental introduction of the alien plant Hieracium lepidulum reveals no significant impact on montane plant communities in New Zealand

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 804-815

  Meffin, Ross ^a   Miller, Alice L ^a,b   Hulme, Philip E ^a   Duncan, Richard P ^a  

^a LINCOLN UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b National Park Service   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Biological invasions; Facilitation; Hierarchical mixed model; Invasive species

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; COEXISTENCE; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; DICOTYLEDON; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FACILITATION; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; INVASIVE SPECIES; MOUNTAIN REGION; PLANT COMMUNITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES EVENNESS; SPECIES RICHNESS; WEED;

CANTERBURY [SOUTH ISLAND]; CRAIGIEBURN RANGE; NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH ISLAND;

HIERACIUM LEPIDULUM;

EID: 77955729663     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2010.00684.x     Document Type: Article

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