Rapid biodiversity declines in both ungrazed and intensely grazed exotic grasslands

Plant Ecology

Volumn 212, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1663-1674

  Isbell, Forest I ^a,b   Wilsey, Brian J ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Coexistence; Complementarity; Conservation; Land use change; Novel ecosystems

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CATTLE; COEVOLUTION; COEXISTENCE; COMPLEMENTARITY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DISTURBANCE; DIVERSITY INDEX; DOMINANCE; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FIELD METHOD; FIELDWORK; GRASSLAND; GRAZING; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; INVASIVE SPECIES; LAND USE CHANGE; MONOCULTURE; NATIVE SPECIES; NICHE PARTITIONING; PLANT COMMUNITY; REMOVAL EXPERIMENT; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES EVENNESS; SPECIES RICHNESS;

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EID: 80052834456     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-011-9939-6     Document Type: Article

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