Interactive effects of herbivory and competition intensity determine invasive plant performance

Oecologia

Volumn 170, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 373-382

  Huang, Wei ^a,b   Carrillo, Juli ^c   Ding, Jianqing ^a   Siemann, Evan ^c  

^a Wuhan Institute of Botany Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

EICA hypothesis; Generalist; Insect plant interactions; Specialist; Tolerance

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; BIOMASS; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FITNESS; GENERALIST; HERBIVORY; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; INVASIVE SPECIES; NATIVE SPECIES; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; SPECIALIST; TOLERANCE;

HEXAPODA;

EID: 84866334517     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-012-2328-6     Document Type: Article

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