Evidence of biotic resistance to invasions in forests of the Eastern USA

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 85-99

  Iannone, Basil V ^a   Potter, Kevin M ^b   Hamil, Kelly Ann Dixon ^c   Huang, Whitney ^c   Zhang, Hao ^c   Guo, Qinfeng ^d   Oswalt, Christopher M ^d   Woodall, Christopher W ^e   Fei, Songlin ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^e USDA Forest Service Northern Research Station   (United States)

Author keywords

Big data; Biomass; Evolutionary diversity; FIA Program; Invasive plants; Macrosystems; Niche; Taxonomic diversity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84952718645     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-015-0280-7     Document Type: Article

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