What it takes to invade grassland ecosystems: Traits, introduction history and filtering processes

Ecology Letters

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 219-229

  Carboni, Marta ^a,b   Münkemüller, Tamara ^a,b   Lavergne, Sébastien ^a,b   Choler, Philippe ^a,b   Borgy, Benjamin ^c,d   Violle, Cyrille ^c   Essl, Franz ^e   Roquet, Cristina ^a,b   Munoz, François ^c,f   Thuiller, Wilfried ^a,b  

^a UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^d Domain du Petit Arbois   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^f FRENCH INSTITUTE OF PONDICHERRY   (India)

Author keywords

Alien species; Functional and phylogenetic similarity; Invasibility; Invasion success; Invasiveness; Rabinowitz

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; CLASSIFICATION; COEXISTENCE; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); CORRELATION; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; GRASSLAND; HISTORICAL RECORD; INTRODUCED SPECIES; INVASIBILITY; NATIVE SPECIES; PHYLOGENETICS;

FRANCE;

FRANCE; GRASSLAND; INTRODUCED SPECIES; PLANT DISPERSAL;

FRANCE; GRASSLAND; INTRODUCED SPECIES; PLANT DISPERSAL;

EID: 84952684788     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12556     Document Type: Article

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