Early Acacia invasion in a sandy ecosystem enables shading mediated by soil, leaf nitrogen and facilitation

Biological Invasions

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2018, Pages 1567-1575

  Meira Neto, João Augusto Alves ^a   da Silva, Maria Carolina Nunes Alves ^a   Tolentino, Gláucia Soares ^a   Gastauer, Markus ^a,b   Buttschardt, Tillmann ^c   Ulm, Florian ^d   Máguas, Cristina ^d  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF VIÇOSA   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO TECNOLÓGICO VALE   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Acacia; Assembly rules; Biological invasion; Ecosystem functioning; Niche theory; Nitrogen fixing; Plant diversity; 15N

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY RULE; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; DICOTYLEDON; DOMINANCE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; FACILITATION; INVASIVE SPECIES; NICHE; NITROGEN FIXATION; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; OLIGOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; SAMPLING; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ACACIA; ACACIA MANGIUM; FABACEAE; MARCETIA TAXIFOLIA; MELASTOMATACEAE;

EID: 85037093800     PISSN: 13873547     EISSN: 15731464     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10530-017-1647-2     Document Type: Article

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