Disturbance governs dominance of an invasive forb in a temporary wetland

Oecologia

Volumn 167, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 759-769

  Price, J N ^a,b   Berney, P J ^a   Ryder, D ^a   Whalley, R D B ^a   Gross, C L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Competition; Flooding; Paspalum distichum; Phyla canescens; Restoration

Indexed keywords

DISTURBANCE; DOMINANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; FORAGE; INHIBITION; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; INVASIVE SPECIES; MIGRATORY BEHAVIOR; PLANT COMMUNITY; RAMSAR CONVENTION; SOIL MOISTURE; WATERFOWL; WETLAND MANAGEMENT;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CLASSIFICATION; FLOODING; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INTRODUCED SPECIES; PASPALUM; PHYSIOLOGY; POACEAE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; VERBENACEAE; WETLAND;

FLOODS; INTRODUCED SPECIES; NEW SOUTH WALES; PASPALUM; POACEAE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; VERBENACEAE; WETLANDS;

AUSTRALIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

LIPPIA; PASPALUM; PASPALUM DISTICHUM; PHYLA CANESCENS;

EID: 80054044736     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-011-2027-8     Document Type: Article

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