United we stand, divided we fall: A meta-analysis of experiments on clonal integration and its relationship to invasiveness

Oecologia

Volumn 171, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 317-327

  Song, Yao Bin ^a,b   Yu, Fei Hai ^b,c   Keser, Lidewij H ^d,e   Dawson, Wayne ^e   Fischer, Markus ^d   Dong, Ming ^a,b   van Kleunen, Mark ^e  

^a HANGZHOU NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c BEIJING FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Clonal plants; Environmental heterogeneity; Global compendium of weeds; Invasiveness; Physiological integration

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; CLONAL ORGANISM; DATA SET; GRASS; HETEROGENEITY; INVASIVENESS; META-ANALYSIS; TRANSLOCATION; VEGETATIVE PROPAGATION; WEED;

EID: 84872612961     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-012-2430-9     Document Type: Review

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