Recovery dynamics and invasibility of herbaceous plant communities after exposure to experimental climate extremes

Basic and Applied Ecology

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 583-591

  Dreesen, Freja E ^a   De Boeck, Hans J ^a   Horemans, Joanna A ^a   Janssens, Ivan A ^a   Nijs, Ivan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Biomass; Colonization; Drought; Experiment; Gap; Heat wave; Legacy effects; Plant ecology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84944175669     PISSN: 14391791     EISSN: 16180089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.baae.2015.05.002     Document Type: Article

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