Invasion-resistance in experimental grassland communities: species richness or species identity?

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作者
Crawley, MJ [1 ]
Brown, SL [1 ]
Heard, MS [1 ]
Edwards, GR [1 ]
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[1] Univ London Imperial Coll Sci Technol & Med, Dept Biol, Ascot SL5 7PY, Berks, England
关键词
Alopecurus; Anthoxantum; Arrhenatherum; assembly; biodiversity; competition; Festuca; invasibility; methyl bromide; seeds;
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Q14 [生态学(生物生态学)];
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071012 ; 0713 ;
摘要
The question as to why some communities are more invasible than others has profound implications for conservation biology and land management. The theoretical issues involved go right to the heart of our understanding of species coexistence and community assembly. The experiment reported here indicates that for productive, small-scale grassland plots, species identity matters more than species richness in determining both the number of invading species and the total biomass of invasives.
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页数:9
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