Can the life-history strategy explain the success of the exotic trees Ailanthus altissima and Robinia pseudoacacia in Iberian floodplain forests?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Castro Díez, Pilar ^a   Valle, Guillermo ^a   González Muñoz, Noelia ^a,b   Alonso, Álvaro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AILANTHUS ALTISSIMA; ARTICLE; EXOTIC SPECIES; FLOODPLAIN; FLOWERING; FRUIT SET; GROWTH RATE; INFLORESCENCE; INVASIVE SPECIES; LIFE HISTORY; NONHUMAN; PLANT DISPERSAL; PLANT REPRODUCTION; PLANT STEM; POLLINATION; POPULUS ALBA; ROBINA PSEUDOACACIA; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; TREE; VEGETATIVE GROWTH; AILANTHUS; ECOSYSTEM; FOREST; FRUIT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; ROBINIA; SEEDLING;

AILANTHUS; ECOSYSTEM; FORESTS; FRUIT; POLLINATION; REPRODUCTION; ROBINIA; SEEDLING; TREES;

EID: 84903287081     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0100254     Document Type: Article

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