Realistic species losses disproportionately reduce grassland resistance to biological invaders

Science

Volumn 306, Issue 5699, 2004, Pages 1175-1177

  Zavaleta, Erika S ^a   Hulvey, Kristin B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; RANDOM PROCESSES;

BIODIVERSITY LOSSES; GRASSLAND DIVERSITY; RANDOMIZED LOSS-EXPERIMENTS;

BIODIVERSITY;

BIODIVERSITY; GRASSLAND; INVASIVE SPECIES;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; GRASSLAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES EXTINCTION; SPECIES INVASION;

ANGIOSPERMS; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; CALIFORNIA; CENTAUREA; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; POACEAE; SEASONS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 8444228204     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1102643     Document Type: Article

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