Managing invasions at the cost of native habitat? An experimental test of the impact of fire on the invasion of Chromolaena odorata in a South African savanna

Biological Invasions

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 607-618

  te Beest, Mariska ^a,d   Cromsigt, Joris P G M ^b   Ngobese, Johan ^c   Olff, Han ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c EZEMVELO KZN WILDLIFE   (South Africa)

^d STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Biological invasions; Conservation; Fire; Hluhluwe iMfolozi Park; Integrative management; Tree grass dynamics

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; DOMINANCE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GRASS; GRASSLAND; HABITAT LOSS; HABITAT QUALITY; INTEGRATED APPROACH; INVASIVE SPECIES; NATIVE SPECIES; NATURE RESERVE; PATCH DYNAMICS; PLANT COMMUNITY; POPULATION REGULATION; PRESCRIBED BURNING; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SAVANNA; SHRUB; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; WOODLAND;

HLUHLUWE-UMFOLOZI PARK; KWAZULU-NATAL; SOUTH AFRICA;

CHROMOLAENA; CHROMOLAENA ODORATA; POACEAE;

EID: 84858007272     PISSN: 13873547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10530-011-0102-z     Document Type: Article

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