Population-level compensation impedes biological control of an invasive forb and indirect release of a native grass

Ecology

Volumn 93, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 783-792

  Ortega, Yvette K ^a   Pearson, Dean E ^a,b   Waller, Lauren P ^b   Sturdevant, Nancy J ^c   Maron, John L ^b  

^a ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^c USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological control; Centaurea maculosa; Centaurea stoebe; Compensation; Context dependence; Cyphocleonus achates; Exotic plant; Herbivory; Indirect effects; Pseudoroegneria spicata; Spotted knapweed; Top down control

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; BIOCONTROL AGENT; COMPENSATION; CONTEST COMPETITION; DROUGHT; GRASS; HERBIVORY; INVASIVE SPECIES; MONOCULTURE; MORTALITY; NATIVE SPECIES; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RANGELAND; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SEED PRODUCTION; SEEDLING; SPECIALIST; SURVIVAL; TOP-DOWN CONTROL; TROPHIC CASCADE; WEED CONTROL;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASTERACEAE; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; DROUGHT; ECOSYSTEM; HERBIVORY; INTRODUCED SPECIES; PHYSIOLOGY; POACEAE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; WEEVIL;

ANIMALS; ASTERACEAE; DROUGHTS; ECOSYSTEM; HERBIVORY; INTRODUCED SPECIES; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; POACEAE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; WEEVILS;

CENTAUREA MACULOSA; CENTAUREA STOEBE; CYPHOCLEONUS ACHATES; HEXAPODA; PSEUDOROEGNERIA SPICATA; STOEBE;

EID: 84861368437     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/11-0750.1     Document Type: Article

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