Why are some plant genera more invasive than others?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Schmidt, John Paul ^a   Drake, John M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL TRAIT; CANADA; CHROMOSOME NUMBER; HABITAT QUALITY; NONHUMAN; PLANT PEST; PLANT TAXONOMY; SEED WEIGHT; SPECIES INVASION; UNITED STATES; VASCULAR PLANT; WEED; WETLAND; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; INTRODUCED SPECIES; PLANT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

TRACHEOPHYTA;

INTRODUCED SPECIES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT WEEDS; PLANTS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 79954503596     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0018654     Document Type: Article

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