Mutualistic interactions and biological invasions

Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics

Volumn 45, Issue , 2014, Pages 89-113

  Traveset, Anna ^a   Richardson, David M ^b  

^a INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

^b STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

belowground mutualisms; invasion facilitation; invasion impacts; invasional meltdown; mutualistic networks; pollination; seed dispersal

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ECOSYSTEM STRUCTURE; FACILITATION; GLOBAL CHANGE; INTRODUCED SPECIES; MUTUALISM; SEED DISPERSAL;

EID: 84913549598     PISSN: 1543592X     EISSN: 15452069     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-120213-091857     Document Type: Article

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