Expansion of a globally pervasive grass occurs without substantial trait differences between home and away populations

Oecologia

Volumn 170, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1123-1132

  Leifso, A ^a   MacDougall, A S ^a   Husband, B ^a   Hierro, J L ^b   Kochy M ^c   Partel M ^d   Peltzer, D A ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PAMPA   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^e Ecosystems Processes Landcare Institute   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Common environment trial; Competition; Invasion ecology; Orchard grass; Plant functional traits

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; CHLOROPHYLL; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GRASS; GROWTH RATE; HOME RANGE; INTERPOPULATION VARIATION; INVASIVENESS; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; ORCHARD; PHYTOMASS; POLYPLOIDY; RANGE EXPANSION;

DACTYLIS; DACTYLIS GLOMERATA;

EID: 84869086555     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-012-2370-4     Document Type: Article

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