Twenty-five years of plant community dynamics and invasion in New Zealand tussock grasslands

Austral Ecology

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 688-699

  Day, Nicola J ^a,b   Buckley, Hannah L ^a  

^a LINCOLN UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Diversity; Hieracium; Species richness; Vegetation change

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; INVASIVE SPECIES; PLANT COMMUNITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TUSSOCK GRASSLAND; VASCULAR PLANT; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH ISLAND;

HIERACIUM; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 84882718368     PISSN: 14429985     EISSN: 14429993     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/aec.12016     Document Type: Article

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