Increased population growth rate in invasive polyploid Centaurea stoebe in a common garden

Ecology Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 947-954

  Hahn, Min A ^a   Buckley, Yvonne M ^b,c   Müller Schärer, Heinz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Centaurea stoebe; Demography; Invasive species; Life history; Life table response experiments; Periodic matrix model; Polyploidy; Rapid evolution; Specialist herbivores; Spotted knapweed

Indexed keywords

CENTAUREA; CENTAUREA STOEBE;

EID: 84931749030     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2012.01813.x     Document Type: Article

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