Environmentally-contingent behaviour of invasive plants as drivers or passengers

Oikos

Volumn 122, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 129-135

  Wilson, Scott D ^a   Pinno, Bradley D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

^b NORTHERN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; COLONIZATION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DISTURBANCE; ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS; FORAGE; GRASS; GRASSLAND; HUMAN ACTIVITY; INVASIVE SPECIES; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; NUTRIENT CYCLING; PLANT; RARE SPECIES; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SUCCESSION;

BROMUS; BROMUS INERMIS; CIRSIUM; CIRSIUM ARVENSE;

EID: 84871477003     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2012.20673.x     Document Type: Article

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