Role of biotic interactions in regulating conifer invasion of grasslands

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 289, Issue , 2013, Pages 175-182

  Haugo, Ryan D ^a   Bakker, Jonathan D ^a   Halpern, Charles B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Competition; Facilitation; Life history; Pseudotsuga menziesii; Tree invasion

Indexed keywords

ABIOTIC CONDITIONS; BIOTIC FACTORS; BIOTIC INTERACTIONS; EXTRINSIC FACTORS; FACILITATION; FOREST SOILS; GROWING SEASON; LIFE HISTORY; LIFE STAGES; NEGATIVE INTERACTION; PSEUDOTSUGA MENZIESII; SEEDLING GROWTH; SEEDLING SURVIVAL; TREE INVASION; WASHINGTON;

COMPETITION; CULTIVATION; SOILS; VEGETATION;

FORESTRY;

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; CONIFEROUS TREE; FACILITATION; FOREST SOIL; GERMINATION; GRASSLAND; GROWING SEASON; GROWTH RATE; INDEX OF BIOTIC INTEGRITY; LIFE HISTORY; MYCORRHIZA; ONTOGENY; PRAIRIE; SEEDLING; SURVIVAL;

UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES];

CONIFEROPHYTA; PSEUDOTSUGA; PSEUDOTSUGA MENZIESII;

EID: 84870179159     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2012.10.019     Document Type: Article

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