Timing is everything: Does early and late germination favor invasions by herbaceous alien plants?

Journal of Plant Ecology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 4-16

  Gioria, Margherita ^a,b   Pyšek, Petr ^a,c   Osborne, Bruce A ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^c CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

competition; germination; invasive plants; phenology; temporal niche

Indexed keywords

EID: 85041222111     PISSN: 17529921     EISSN: 1752993X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jpe/rtw105     Document Type: Article

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