Per capita community-level effects of an invasive grass, Microstegium vimineum, on vegetation in mesic forests in northern Mississippi (USA)

Biological Invasions

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 701-715

  Brewer, J Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

Author keywords

Chasmanthium laxum; Competition; Disturbance; Facilitation; Leersia virginica; Niche complementarity; Phenology; Quercus alba

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CANOPY GAP; COEXISTENCE; COMPLEMENTARITY; DECIDUOUS FOREST; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FACILITATION; FLOODPLAIN; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GRASS; GROWING SEASON; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; INVASIVE SPECIES; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NICHE; PHENOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VULNERABILITY;

MISSISSIPPI; UNITED STATES;

CHASMANTHIUM LAXUM; LEERSIA VIRGINICA; MICROSTEGIUM VIMINEUM; QUERCUS ALBA;

EID: 79751534913     PISSN: 13873547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10530-010-9861-1     Document Type: Article

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