Insect assemblages change along a gradient of invasion by a nonnative grass

Biological Invasions

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 3449-3463

  Litt, Andrea R ^a,b   Steidl, Robert J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Eragrostis lehmanniana; Grasslands; Invertebrates; Lehmann lovegrass; Nonnative plants; Phytophagous insects

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; BIOMASS; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DOMINANCE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; FOOD AVAILABILITY; GRASS; GRASSLAND; HABITAT TYPE; INSECT; INVASIVE SPECIES; PERENNIAL PLANT; PLANT COMMUNITY; POLLINATION; SPECIES RICHNESS; TROPHIC LEVEL;

ARIZONA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; ERAGROSTIS; ERAGROSTIS LEHMANNIANA; HEXAPODA; INVERTEBRATA; POACEAE;

EID: 77956885224     PISSN: 13873547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10530-010-9743-6     Document Type: Article

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