Can a breakdown in competition-colonization tradeoffs help explain the success of exotic species in the California flora?

Oikos

Volumn 121, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 389-395

  Molina Montenegro, Marco A ^a,b   Cleland, Elsa E ^d   Watts, Sean M ^e   Broitman, Bernardo R ^a,c  

^a Universidad Católica del Norte   (Chile)

^b Pontificia Univ Católica de Chile ^*  (Chile)

^c PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; COLONIZATION; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); FUNCTIONAL CHANGE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; NATIVE SPECIES; SEED DISPERSAL; SEED SIZE; TAXONOMY; TRADE-OFF;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84857658695     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2011.18943.x     Document Type: Article

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