Increasing functional modularity with residence time in the co-distribution of native and introduced vascular plants

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Hu, Cang ^a   Richardson, David M ^a   Pyšek, Petr ^b,c   Le Roux, Johannes J ^a   Kučera, Tomáš ^d   Jarošík, Vojtěch ^b,c  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (Czech Republic)

^c CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMPARTMENTALIZATION; INTRODUCED SPECIES; METAPOPULATION; NATIVE SPECIES; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RESIDENCE TIME; STOCHASTICITY; VASCULAR PLANT;

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; GRASS; HABITAT; INTRODUCED SPECIES; LATITUDE; LEGUME; LONGITUDE; MUSTARD; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PLANT COMMUNITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION SIZE; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES INVASION; VASCULAR PLANT; WINTER;

CENTRAL EUROPE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ASTERACEAE; BIODIVERSITY; CYPERACEAE; CZECH REPUBLIC; ECOSYSTEM; HUMANS; INTRODUCED SPECIES; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PLANT DISPERSAL; POACEAE; ROSACEAE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84893352904     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3454     Document Type: Article

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