Deep rooting and global change facilitate spread of invasive grass

Biological Invasions

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 2619-2631

  Mozdzer, Thomas J ^a   Langley, J Adam ^b   Mueller, Peter ^c   Megonigal, J Patrick ^d  

^a BRYN MAWR COLLEGE   (United States)

^b VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^d SMITHSONIAN ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Elevated carbon dioxide; Invasive; Marsh organ; Nitrogen; Phragmites; Priming; Rooting depth; Schoenoplectus americanus; Spartina patens

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; CARBON DIOXIDE ENRICHMENT; DECOMPOSITION; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; GLOBAL CHANGE; GRASS; HYDROPERIOD; INVASIVE SPECIES; SEDGE; SOIL NITROGEN; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER;

NORTH AMERICA;

PHRAGMITES; PHRAGMITES AUSTRALIS; SCHOENOPLECTUS AMERICANUS; SPARTINA PATENS;

EID: 84983548266     PISSN: 13873547     EISSN: 15731464     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10530-016-1156-8     Document Type: Article

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