Effects of Native and Non-Native Vertebrate Mutualists on Plants

Conservation Biology

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 778-789

  Aslan, Clare E ^a   Zavaleta, Erika S ^a   Croll, Don ^a   Tershy, Bernie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Islands; Meta analysis; Mutualism; Non native species; Restoration; Taxon substitution

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; EXTINCTION; FITNESS; GERMINATION; INTRODUCED SPECIES; META-ANALYSIS; MUTUALISM; NATIVE SPECIES; PLANT COMMUNITY; POLLINATOR; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SEED DISPERSAL; SEED SET; SPECIES CONSERVATION; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMAL; INTRODUCED SPECIES; META ANALYSIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; POLLINATION; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SEED DISPERSAL; SYMBIOSIS; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; INTRODUCED SPECIES; PLANT PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; POLLINATION; REPRODUCTION; SEED DISPERSAL; SYMBIOSIS; VERTEBRATES;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84865999211     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2012.01885.x     Document Type: Review

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