Positive feedbacks to growth of an invasive grass through alteration of nitrogen cycling

Oecologia

Volumn 170, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 457-465

  Lee, Marissa R ^a,b   Flory, S Luke ^a,c   Phillips, Richard P ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Common garden; Deciduous forest; Microstegium vimineum; Nitrification; Plant soil feedbacks

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; DECIDUOUS FOREST; DOMINANCE; GRASS; GROWTH RATE; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; INVASIVE SPECIES; NATIVE SPECIES; NITRIFICATION; NITROGEN COMPOUND; NITROGEN CYCLE; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SOIL NITROGEN;

MICROSTEGIUM VIMINEUM;

EID: 84866322202     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-012-2309-9     Document Type: Article

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