Insights from community ecology into the role of enemy release in causing invasion success: the importance of native enemy effects

Biological Invasions

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1283-1297

  Prior, Kirsten M ^a,b   Powell, Thomas H Q ^a,b   Joseph, Ashley L ^a   Hellmann, Jessica J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Community interactions; Enemy release hypothesis; Invasion success; Invasive species; Native and introduced range; Top down effects

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939967234     PISSN: 13873547     EISSN: 15731464     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10530-014-0800-4     Document Type: Article

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