Life history variation in a temperate plant invader, Verbascum thapsus along a tropical elevational gradient in Hawaii

Biological Invasions

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 4033-4047

  Ansari, Shahin ^a   Daehler, Curtis C ^b  

^a SWCA Environmental Consultants   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Elevation; Life history; Montane; Plant invasion; Subalpine; Threshold size; Verbascum thapsus

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; DICOTYLEDON; ELEVATION; INVASIVE SPECIES; LIFE HISTORY; MOUNTAIN REGION; SEEDLING; SUBALPINE ENVIRONMENT; SURVIVAL; THRESHOLD; TROPICAL REGION;

HAWAII [(ISL) HAWAIIAN ISLANDS]; HAWAII [UNITED STATES]; HAWAIIAN ISLANDS; MAUNA KEA; UNITED STATES;

VERBASCUM; VERBASCUM THAPSUS;

EID: 78149408396     PISSN: 13873547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10530-010-9810-z     Document Type: Article

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