Plant Invasions and Invasibility of Plant Communities

Vegetation Ecology: Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 387-424

  Rejmánek, Marcel ^a   Richardson, David M ^b   Pyšek, Petr ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^c INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Alien; Compatibility; Disturbance; Ecosystem; Individual fitness homeostasis; Invasibility; Invasion; Population fitness homeostasis; Propagule pressure; Residence time

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885099253     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118452592.ch13     Document Type: Chapter

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