The importance of space, time, and stochasticity to the demography and management of Alliaria petiolata

Ecological Applications

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1497-1511

  Evans, Jeffrey A ^a,d   Davis, Adam S ^b   Raghu, S ^c,e   Ragavendran, Ashok ^a,f   Landis, Douglas A ^a   Schemske, Douglas W ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

^d Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory   (United States)

^e CSIRO   (Australia)

^f PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alliaria petiolata; Biological control; Demography; Environmental stochasticity; Illinois; Invasive species; Matrix model; Michigan; USA; Weed management

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; BIOCONTROL AGENT; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; DEMOGRAPHY; DICOTYLEDON; FECUNDITY; GERMINATION; GROWTH RATE; INVASIVE SPECIES; INVASIVENESS; POPULATION MODELING; STOCHASTICITY; SURVIVAL; WEED CONTROL;

UNITED STATES;

ALLIARIA PETIOLATA; CEUTORHYNCHUS; COLEOPTERA; CURCULIONIDAE;

EID: 84864143240     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/11-1291.1     Document Type: Article

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