Top-down and bottom-up controls on Dalmatian toadflax (Linaria dalmatica) performance along the Colorado Front Range, USA

Plant Ecology

Volumn 213, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 185-195

  Jamieson, Mary A ^a   Knochel, David ^b   Manrique, Adriana ^b   Seastedt, Timothy R ^b  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological control; Herbivory; Invasive plant; Linaria dalmatica; Mecinus janthinus; Plant competition; Soil nitrogen availability

Indexed keywords

BIOCONTROL AGENT; BIOMASS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HERB; HERBIVORY; INVASIVE SPECIES; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PEST SPECIES; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; REPRODUCTION; SEED PRODUCTION; SOIL NITROGEN; TROPHIC CONTROL; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

COLORADO; FRONT RANGE; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES;

LINARIA; LINARIA DALMATICA; MECINUS;

EID: 84856253141     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-011-0013-1     Document Type: Article

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