'Invasional meltdown': Evidence for unexpected consequences and cumulative impacts of multispecies invasions

Biological Invasions

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1111-1125

  Montgomery, W Ian ^a   Lundy, Mathieu G ^a   Reid, Neil ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Impacts; Interspecific competition; Invasional meltdown; Island populations; Multiple invasions; Small mammal community

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AVIFAUNA; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; BIOLOGICAL SURVEY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; FOOD WEB; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; INVASIVE SPECIES; INVERTEBRATE; LANDSCAPE PLANNING; NATIVE SPECIES; RODENT; SUCCESSION;

IRELAND;

AVES; CLETHRIONOMYS GLAREOLUS; CROCIDURA; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; MURIDAE; SOREX HOYI;

EID: 84861004925     PISSN: 13873547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10530-011-0142-4     Document Type: Article

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