Invasibility of a mesic grassland depends on the time-scale of fluctuating resources

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 103, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1538-1546

  Koerner, Sally E ^a   Avolio, Meghan L ^b   Chang, Cynthia C ^c   Gray, Jesse ^a   Hoover, David L ^a   Smith, Melinda D ^a  

^a Veterinary Dentistry and Oral Surgery   (United States)

^b National Socio environmental Synthesis Center   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON BOTHELL   (United States)

Author keywords

Biotic resistance; Dominance; Fluctuating resource hypothesis; Interannual precipitation; Intra annual precipitation; Invasion ecology; Rainfall; Resource pulse; Tallgrass

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DOMINANCE; GLOBAL CHANGE; GRASS; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INVASIBILITY; PRAIRIE; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SEEDLING; SPECIES RICHNESS; TIMESCALE;

KANSAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84944474532     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: 13652745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.12479     Document Type: Article

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