Exploring the potential for climatic factors, herbivory, and co-occurring vegetation to shape performance in native and introduced populations of Verbascum thapsus

Biological Invasions

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2505-2518

  Alba, Christina ^a,b   Hufbauer, Ruth ^a  

^a Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Bare ground; Common mullein; Competition; Enemy escape; Enemy release; Herbivory; Plant invasions; Resource availability

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; COEXISTENCE; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HERB; HERBIVORY; INTRODUCED SPECIES; NATIVE SPECIES; NATURAL ENEMY; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; POPULATION STRUCTURE; RANGE EXPANSION; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SEMIARID REGION; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

EUROPE; UNITED STATES;

VERBASCUM; VERBASCUM THAPSUS;

EID: 84868326194     PISSN: 13873547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10530-012-0247-4     Document Type: Article

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