Alien and endangered plants in the Brazilian Cerrado exhibit contrasting relationships with vegetation biomass and N : P stoichiometry

New Phytologist

Volumn 196, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 816-823

  Lannes, Luciola S ^a   Bustamante, Mercedes M C ^b   Edwards, Peter J ^a   Venterink, Harry Olde ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Biomass; Brachiaria decumbens; Cerrado; Melinis minutiflora; N : P ratio; Nutrients; Plant invasion; Savanna

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS;

CERRADO; ENDANGERED SPECIES; INTRODUCED SPECIES; PHYTOMASS; SAVANNA; STOICHIOMETRY;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; BIOTA; BRAZIL; CHEMISTRY; ECOSYSTEM; ENDANGERED SPECIES; INTRODUCED SPECIES; METABOLISM; PLANT; SOIL; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BIOMASS; BIOTA; BRAZIL; ECOSYSTEM; ENDANGERED SPECIES; INTRODUCED SPECIES; LINEAR MODELS; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; PLANTS; SOIL;

BRAZIL;

BRACHIARIA; MELINIS; MELINIS MINUTIFLORA; UROCHLOA BRIZANTHA;

EID: 84867397169     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2012.04363.x     Document Type: Article

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