Functional differences between native and alien species: A global-scale comparison

Functional Ecology

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1353-1361

  Ordonez, Alejandro ^a   Wright, Ian J ^b   Olff, Han ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Alien native plants; Functional diversity; Invasive biology; Plant height; Plant introductions; Seed size; SLA; Traits

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; DATABASE; DIVERGENCE; FUNCTIONAL CHANGE; INVASIVE SPECIES; LEAF AREA; NATIVE SPECIES; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; SEED SIZE;

EID: 78649571842     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2010.01739.x     Document Type: Article

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