Positive diversity-invasibility relationship in species-rich semi-natural grassland at the neighbourhood scale

Annals of Botany

Volumn 110, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1385-1393

  Zeiter, Michaela ^a,b   Stampfli, Andreas ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b BERN UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Biotic resistance; environmental heterogeneity; forbs; graminoids; grassland; invasibility; neighbourhood scale; recruitment; seed addition; seedling establishment; species diversity; species richness

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZA; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FUNGUS; GRASSLAND; HETEROGENEITY; INVASIBILITY; PLANT COMMUNITY; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); RESIDENT POPULATION; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; SOIL BIOTA; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; FUNGUS; INTRODUCED SPECIES; LIGHT; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCORRHIZA; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT SEED; POACEAE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SEASON; SEEDLING; SOIL; STATISTICAL MODEL; SWITZERLAND;

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; FUNGI; INTRODUCED SPECIES; LIGHT; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MYCORRHIZAE; POACEAE; SEASONS; SEEDLING; SEEDS; SOIL; SWITZERLAND;

ARBUSCULAR; FUNGI;

EID: 84869165010     PISSN: 03057364     EISSN: 10958290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcs193     Document Type: Article

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