Resource competition in plant invasions: Emerging patterns and research needs

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 5, Issue SEP, 2014, Pages

  Gioria, Margherita ^a,b   Osborne, Bruce A ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Apparent competition; Competitive ability; Dominance; Evolutionary adaptation; Phenology; Phenotypic plasticity; Phylogenetic relatedness; Resource gradient

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907551366     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2014.00501     Document Type: Review

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